"Agents wanted. ... Address, National Publishing Co., at ... 19 N. Seventh St., Philadelphia, Pa., 116 East Randolph St., Chicago, Ill., 410 Market Street, St. Louis, Mo., 84 High St., Columbus, Ohio. We have especially prepared a superb lithographic engraving of the Centennial Buildings on a sheet 20 by 27 inches. A copy of this magnificent view ... will be presented to each subscriber for this work. Caution--Old, incomplete, and unreliable histories are being circulated. See that the book you buy contains 442 fine historical engravings and 925 pages. Price, only $3.75 per copy. Published in both English and German."

Some wood-engravings by Van Ingen-Snyder, W. Orr, Sharp (i.e., Joseph E. Sharp?), D.G. Yates, and Speer. Among the illustrations is a facsimile of the "signatures of the signers of the Declaration of Independence."

"In order to render this work complete in every respect, the author [James Dabney McCabe] has embraced it in a graphic account of the great Centennial Exhibition to be held in Philadelphia in the summer of 1876 ..."

Printed in red and black.

Printed area measures 77.8 x 50.0 cm.

Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2005. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (American broadsides and ephemera. First series ; no. 14817).

Publishers and publishing > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia.

Booksellers and bookselling > Colportage, subscription trade, etc.

Broadsides.

Prospectuses.