1893 Chicago Midway Playing Cards & History of the World’s Fair Card Deck by Stuart Van Leer Bradley. Railway Station Press, 2020. ISBN: 9781951299057. Softcover, 40 pages. $15.00.

This companion book to the recently produced set of Midway Playing Cards contains a summary of the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago and the Midway Plaisance, technical notes about the set of Barnhart Brothers & Spindler (BB&S) type foundry printers ornaments, scans of a set of letterpress history cards, and an assortment of interesting and informative historical photographs and maps, several in color. This small, but handsome volume, complements and illuminates the playing card decks offered earlier.

For information about other non-fiction publications about the 1893 World’s Fair, visit the The Columbian Exposition Research Library.