. The story of the exposition; being the official history of the international celebration held at San Francisco in 1915 to commemorate the discovery of the Pacific Ocean and the construction of the Panama Canal. THE -NEW YORK BARGE CAXAL CHAPTER XVBOOKS, MUSIC, AND ART THE Palace of Liberal Arts held treasure to fascinate the Elder & Company exhibited some beautiful bindings, standardworks, and a long list of books on California. Rare volumes, leaflets,cards, and brochures from Elder & Companys shop down town, one of themost artistic in the country, charmed the visitor that d
. The story of the exposition; being the official history of the international celebration held at San Francisco in 1915 to commemorate the discovery of the Pacific Ocean and the construction of the Panama Canal. THE -NEW YORK BARGE CAXAL CHAPTER XVBOOKS, MUSIC, AND ART THE Palace of Liberal Arts held treasure to fascinate the Elder & Company exhibited some beautiful bindings, standardworks, and a long list of books on California. Rare volumes, leaflets,cards, and brochures from Elder & Companys shop down town, one of themost artistic in the country, charmed the visitor that delighted in theelement of beauty in book production. The booth suggested a Gothiccloister, and produced the perfect bookish atmosphere. John Howell, importer and merchant of old and rare books, made thelargest exhibition of them ever shown at any exposition, and did it in an oldbook shop that looked as though it had been transplanted bodily from theLondon of Ben Jonsons day. A large part of this exhibit wasborrowed from some of the important private libraries of the volumesState, and in this way was gathered such a collection as no onelibrary in the country possessed, for there was none that had a
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