Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 1, 1894, Page 21

&“AHA DAILY BEE: WVI)AY AP RH, ], 1894~TWENTY PAGES. THE BOOK OF THE BUlLDERS, BEING THE CHRONICLE OF THE-ORIGIN AND: PLAN OF THE WORLDS .FAIR; OF THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE BUILDINGS AND LANDSCAPE; OF THE WORK OF CONSTRUCTION; OF THE DECORATIONS AND EMBELLISH- MENTS; AND OF THE OPERATION. I VURTHER particulars have come to hand regarding this great Memorial History of the World's Columbian Exhibition. To those who did not see the important First Announcement on this subject we include here a bricf synopsis of itt. The Book of the Builders is the authorative history of the making and operation of the World’s Columbian Exhibition. It might almost be called an Autobiography, for it is to be written, edited. decorated and published by the same men whose genius conceived, built, adorned and operated the World's IFair. The Fair, from beginning to end, was built by them in three years; they will now build its Literary and Artistic History in one year, or possibly less. * The Book of the Builders” has been undertaken in the same spirit in which the World’s Fair was carried forward, and it will be executed as a literary and artistic achievement, and not primarily for gain. As the World's Fair was the greatest exhibition in thz history of the world, so this Mamorial of it will undoubtedly be the most re- markable work of any literature in any age, So many interests were necessarily involved in the undertaking that the State of Illinois has chartered a special body—The Columbian Memorial Publication Society—under whose auspices the work will be carried to completion, HE cost of the undertaking will be very great. The price of the book may not be definitely known for same time. but it cannot fall short of One Thousand Dollars a I volume. It is the present plan cf the Society, however, to fix no stated prlce per copy, but exccute the work in the finest possible manner, charging for each volume only the actval cost of the production and supervision. It is felt that, with no limit set to th= price, there can be no questions of deterioration or reduction to save expense, On the other hand, if the work is sold at actual cost, without profit of any kind to the Society, there will be no reason to doubt that it will prove the most valuable book at the price ever made or sold in America, T will naturaliy be too costly a work to issue in the ordinary way, and the book will be built *‘to order only,” It will not be possible to secure a copy except by placing an advance I order with the Columbian Memorial Publication Society. No more copies will be made than are ordered, aad inasmuch as the Society has been created for this one sole undermkmg, and will conclude its labors as a Society with the completion of the last volume, it will readily be seen that every copy of ‘‘The Book of the Builders” must soon have a grcatly enhanced value,—the same enhanced value which attaches to the pictures of a painter after his death, when any further work from his hand is an impossibility, The Board of Executive Control, in whose hands the entire direction has been placed, have constituted and appointed D. H. BURNHAM and F. D. MILILET as Co=editors. and these gentlemen will virtually be the two authors of *“The Book of ‘the Builders.” They have also appointed a special Supervisor of Typography, who is well known as one of the best authorities in America on the art of book-making, Many minor appointments have been made and others will follow. EARLY one hundred artists have already recelved commissions from the Society, and some of them will give their entire time to the work from this date. The greatest | \ | interest has been aroused in the remarkable reproductions, decorations and illustrations which “ The Book of the Builders” is to contain; they will all be from sketches made at the Fair, and it will easily be seen from the lists of artists below that the best talent of America has been requisitioned for this work, No such compilation of American art has ever before been made in a single work. Some of these illustrations are in the nature of chronological views; that is, they show all the details of building and landscape archi¢ tecture and decoration at different stages of the work. It is unnecessary to add that no one of these valuable pictures has ever been placed on exhibition, and there will be no opportunify to see them except in the pages of * The Book of Builders.” THE BEE has already explained to its readers the details of the important arrangement by which the Columbian Memorial Publication Society has consented to make a complete compilation expressly for THE OMAHA BEE of the most valuable historical and artistic matter from its great collection, and supply a limited number of copies to THE BEE for its own use. It will be A Popular Edition of “The Book of the Builders,” PUBLISHED BY THE COLUMBIAN MEMORIAL PUBLICATION SOCIETY EXPRESSLY FOR THE OMAHA BEE. It will contain all the most valuable data from an historical and educational standpoint. It will be superbly prepared and printed on the finest plate paper without regard to expense, It will contain one hundred full-page reproductions in fac simile colors of Besides these there will be in the text several hundred ORIGINAL PAINTINGS, ORIGINAL SKETCHES AND DRAWINGS made expressly for ‘“The Book of the Builders,” by the following In black and white by the following American Artists American Illustrators W.S. V. Allen Frank Russell Green Albert A. Ross Otto H. Bacher Childe Hassam S Harry Bacon F. L. V. Hoppin . medtgen G. A. Bassi A, Taccaci Walter Shirlaw Dan Beard Francis C. Jones William T. Smedley Edwin H. Blashficld H. Bolton Jones Henry B, Robert Blum Corwin K. Linson i Howard Russcll Butler Orson Lowell Carlton T. Chapman (n,m ge W, Mu\ nard Herbert Denman 2 harles T, dc. ]lull-.trllp o4 C. Y. Turner S. V. Allen Frederick W. Freer W. L. Palmer J. E. E. Garnsey Robert Reid E. Il Blashfield R. Swain aifford Charles S. Reinhart Robert Blum Charles Graham Theo. Robinson J. G. Brown Frank Russell Green Henry Sandham Howard Russell Butler Childe Hassam Mrs. Rosina Emmett Sherwood Miss Mary Cassatt Francis C. Jones . ‘Walter Shirlaw William M. Chase H. Bolton Jones E. E. Simmons Charles C. B Mrs. Dora Wheeler Keith William T, Smedley Kenyon George W. Maynard Henry B. Snell Charles C. Curran .G Melchers T. de Thulstrup Frederic Dielman T Ierbert Denman “harles Mente C. Y. Turner W. I Drake J. 1, Twachtman Frederle Diclman J. H. Twachtman C. Harry Eaton Victor Perar R. W. Van Boskerck Lawrenc Earle a0 f R. W. Van Boskerck Harry Fenn v H. Perry J. Alden Weir G. Ha; on Fi J. Alden Weir J. A. Fraser harles Runh art Ww. J. “‘hitt'gl-mm‘c W. J. Whittemore A. B. Frost Irving R. Wiles Harry Fenn Mrs. Frederick MacMonnies W. Hamilton Gibson Julian Rix J. D. Woadward Charles Graham W. A. Rogers R. F. Zogbaum It will e issued .in (Wenty.five parts, APPEARING FORTNIGHTLY FOR ONE YEAR. [ s the number of copies must be limited, the BEE proposes to use each copy 1 the most effective manner in which it can be employed, namely, o secure a new subscriber! The general plan is as follows: 7T'he complete worlk, as just stated, will be in twenty~five sections. The right to purchase one copy of the complete work will be given to any person sending a year's subscription to THE OMAHA BEE. It must be remembered that a year's subscription to THE BEE does not secure you the book, but only the rigkt to purchase one copy. To the fortunate owners of these ‘‘rights,” however, the books will be sold at the merely nominal price of 26 Cents a Seéection; SG@Cents by Mail e s the number of copies which can be procured is limited, it will be easily possible to enter your order too late to secure the work, and after the publication of the Fifth ase, for it is in their Section we cannot pledge ourselves to accept any orders for the complete work, beginning back at Section One. We shall do our best by our subscribers in any ¢ interest alone that we have undertaken to secure for them an opportunity to own an edition of this valuable work. THE BEE has been to very great expenditure of time apd money to make the necessary arrangements for this popular edition of “The Book of the Builders,” and it is probable that a large number of our readers will wish to avail themselves of this opportunity to secure one of the greatest compilations in the History of Modern Literature, at a cost of only One cent fand a\fraction/ per day. We shall give our readers from day to day the latest developments in this important undertaking. Tl\e BEE proposes to devote liberal space 1n its columns every week to the announcements of this work, for the interest and significance which attaches to “The Book of the lhn’dura second in importance only to the Exhibition itself. ~All orders and corresponc nge on thxs sub;ect should be addressed tu i Qr aI Z N eb. jfiwfi e A1 7 i s B S ;q,»romm W»N #iatsallh Ryl . 4 lu‘: » 3 Innncdiuto application is therefore necessary to avoid disappointment.