STANDARD ATLAS OF CHAMPAIGN COUNTY ILLINOIS INCLUDING A PLAT BOOK OF THE VILLAGES, CITIES AND TOWNSHIPS OF THE COUNTY. MAP OF THE STATE, UNITED STATES AND WORLD. PATRON'S DIRECTORY, REFERENCE BUSINESS DIRECTORY AND DEPARTMENTS . . .

Poor condition. Second edition. Full title: STANDARD ATLAS OF CHAMPAIGN COUNTY ILLINOIS INCLUDING A PLAT BOOK OF THE VILLAGES, CITIES AND TOWNSHIPS OF THE COUNTY. MAP OF THE STATE, UNITED STATES AND WORLD. PATRON'S DIRECTORY, REFERENCE BUSINESS DIRECTORY AND DEPARTMENTS DEVOTED TO GENERAL INFORMATION. ANALYSIS OF THE SYSTEM OF U.S. LAND SURVEYS, DIGEST OF THE SYSTEM OF CIVIL GOVERNMENT, ETC. ETC. Paged as 1-163, i-viii, [no page ix as specified in Table of Contents], x-xix, [missing xx-xxi], xxii-xxiii with duplicate copy of last leaf present and bound-in upside down. Elephant folio - hardcover; H 45.25cm x L 38.75cm (17.75 inches x 15.25 inches). Maroon cloth spine; black cloth boards with maroon corners. Boards rubbed and stained; gilt stamping upon front board remains fairly bright; board corners well worn; should be re-backed as spine cloth is chipped at ends and both joints cracked with rear board more tenuous than front as underlying binding mesh is exposed lengthwise along joint and hinge. Edges toned; strong foxing and toning to endpapers; rear endpapers soiled with edgeworn rear free endpaper detached and now laid-in; past owner's ink signature on front free endpaper. Some soiling to leaves; moderate to occasionally strong foxing as well as toning to interior leaves (affecting both map and text pages) with latter caused by once laid-in but now removed unrelated ephemera items. A few later leaves and maps affected by small bug damage chips and related patches of abrasion at fore-edge margins and top margins; strong bumping at bottoms of pages 137 onward. Color and b/w maps inclusive to page 123 with small majority of map/plat images printed on single-sided rectos only but others being on adjoining pages (i.e. verso and opposing recto); publisher's pagination of atlas section purposely includes the blank pages with the total number of pages dedicated to map images is fifty-nine. "Patron's Reference Directory" on pages 125-129; advertising section for local businesses on pages 129-137; "Illustrations" section featuring b/w photographs of local buildings and citizens on pages 139-163 but printed single-sided rectos only; concluding Supplement section comprised of Roman-paginated leaves offers explanation of metes, bounds, meridians, baselines, reviews distinctions between national, state, and county government levels, and concludes with a rather extraneous world history chronology which, as aforementioned, is missing one leaf with an upside-down duplicate as an apparent binder's error. OCLC indicates that this 1913 Ogle and Co. imprint was preceded by an 1893 Ogle & Co. edition; a third edition was published by Brock & Company in 1929. Please note that this large book has an approximate shipping weight of 9 pounds (4.08 kg) and will require additional postage for any postal class other than domestic Media Mail.…