Introduction and acknowledgments / Jack Perry Brown

The book in the city beautiful scholarly collections as the Art Institute of Chicago / Jack Perry Brown

Printed books: Walter S. Brewster's Whistleriana collection / Susan Augustine ; To the highest manner: fine binding in the Ryerson and Burnham Libraries / Christine M. Fabian ; Pochoir in art nouveau and art deco book illustration / Amy Ballmer ; Chicago comics: a century of progress / Nancy Ford and Joe Tallarico ; Sarah M. Raymond Fitzwillim and the Nuremberg chronicle / Laurie Chipps ; Architectura curiosa nova / Lori M. Van Deman ; Inland architect and news record / Pam Cipkowski ; The Rubāiyāt of Omar Khayyām / Rachel Martin Cole

Animal locomotion: an electro-photographic investigation of consecutive phases of animal movements, 1872-1885 / Jeffrey Carillo ; The Kelmscott Chaucer / Dana Oliveri ; Ephemeral and essential: the pamphlet files in the Ryerson Library collection / Cheryl Arvio and Thea Liberty Nichols ; Camera work / Jeffrey Carillo ; The life work of Dard Hunter / Cecile Webster ; Sculpture: an essay on stone-cutting with a preface about God / Dana Oliveri ; The artist as creator and collector: the Edgar Degas Estate auction catalogues / Bethanne Portala ; Partnerships in print: avant-garde periodical design / Leslie K. Wakeford ; Never judge a book by its cover: Mary Reynolds's binding for Night-flight / Christine M. Fabian and Jack Perry Brown ; One cent life / Danielle N. Kramer ; Hairy Who Cat-a-logs: exhibition comics, 1966-69 / Thea Liberty Nichols ; Hybrid histories in contemporary artist books: Codex espangliensis and Doska pocheta / Melanie Emerson ; Useful publications: catalogues raisonnés / Cheryl Hill ; The unbearable lightness of the artist monograph: Joe Zane and Joe Gibbons / Anne Champagne

Archival collections: "The best thing": the Daniel H. Burnham and Edward H. Bennett collections and the 1909 plan of Chicago / Carl Smith ; The Harold Allen collection of Egyptomania / Mary Woolever ; "Universal designers": collections from the new Bauhaus and the Institute of Design / Nathaniel Parks ; Imagining the Art Institute: William M. R. French's travel notebook / Bart Ryckbosch ; Halic: historic architecture and landscape image collection / Kristan Hanson ; "Greater, better, more glorious": documenting the Century of Progress / Kristan Hanson and Mary Woolever ; The magic of America / Edward T. Fishwick ; The engineer and the photographer: Vincent Willem van Gogh and Peter Pollack / Bart Ryckbosch ; An architect's mind: the Harry Mohr Weese notebooks / Dana M. Lamparello

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