2 volumes in 11 fascicles, folio (560 x 390 mm). Titles printed in red and black. Profusely illustrated throughout, with full-page and window-mounted etched, lithographed or photogravure plates, many with hand-coloring, all with lettered tissue guards (a few tissue guards creased or with short tears); in-text illustrations in a variety of media, many with hand-coloring. Loose as issued in white paper-covered boards stamped in gilt and red; fascicles laid-in to half red morocco over cream cloth portfolios stamped in gold, red silk doublures (some minor soiling, a few scuffs or abrasions, most lacking elastic corner bands). 

DELUXE LIMITED EDITION, number 59 of 100 copies of the "Edition of the Republic," printed for William Mack, M.D. "Naturally, so great an Exposition requires a record, one that shall be as fine as itself. The task is one to stir ambition... The present World's Fair in honor of Columbus being...the most grandiloquent of them all, it will be becoming in this record to translate it most faithfully and most handsomely" (Introduction). [With:] A George III style mahogany folio cabinet, the case with columnar supports flanking eleven long-drawers and surmounted by a larger drawer with a square top and raised on bun feet.