Bidspirit auction | McCabe, James D. The Illustrated

McCabe, James D. The Illustrated History of the Centennial Exhibition. Jones Brothers & Co., 1876. First Edition. - This octavo-sized volume is a commemorative history of the 1876 Centennial Exhibition held in Philadelphia. The work is bound in three-quarter brown leather with maroon cloth boards, featuring five raised bands on the spine with gilt-stamped decorative motifs and gold lettering. The title page identifies James D. McCabe as the author and Jones Brothers & Co. as the publisher, with a copyright date of 1876 by J. R. Jones. The volume is embellished with over 200 engravings, including a frontispiece portrait of George Washington with a tissue guard and a large fold-out plate of the Memorial Building or Art Gallery. The edges of the text block and the matching endpapers feature a marbled pattern. The back of the book contains a subscription advertisement for the National Publishing Co. titled Do You Want to Make Money?. The binding shows significant shelf wear, with scuffing and leather loss at the corners and along the spine edges. The front inner hinge is split, resulting in the front board and the first few leaves, including the frontispiece and title page, being partially detached. The interior pages exhibit typical age-related toning but remain largely clean and free of significant foxing or marginalia. The fold-out plate shows some creasing but remains intact.