...Authentic and reliable instructor for visitors to the exposition, and the most profitable companion for the sight-seer who has to stay at home. Views and full descriptions of the exposition buildings. Spectacular effects of the stately buildings of the leading states and nations of the world. Ohio at the great Columbian exposition. Guide to Cincinnati and her famous suburbs.

A guide to the Chicago World's Fair for people stuck in Cincinnati, with plenty of content promoting the city's own merits (and merchants). 

Publisher's pictorial cloth binding with gilt stamped titles and vignettes. Illustrated rear cover advertising Joseph R. Peebles grocery store, with their compliments.  8vo, 432pp. Very Good+ with light rubbing to tips and dulling to gilt; otherwise a crisp, square copy. Illustrated throughout with copious architectural scenes and vignettes of curiosities at the World's Fair, including performing animals. Color lithograph illustrations printed by the Winters Art Lithograph Co in Chicago, including a 4-panel folding panorama.