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Here are entered works on public gatherings at a stated time and place at which goods are exhibited and sold. Works on competitive exhibitions of farm products, livestock, baked goods, etc., with prizes for excellence, often combined with carnival-like entertainment, and held annually by states, counties, etc., are entered under Agricultural exhibitions. Works on areas within which or arrangements by which many buyers and sellers are brought into contact with one another in order to exchange goods or services are entered under Markets.

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• Fairs -- England
• Fairs -- Great Britain
• Fairs -- Periodicals
• Fairs -- Scotland
• Agricultural exhibitions

• Essai Historique sur le Droit des Marchés et des Foires (in French; Paris: A. Rousseau, 1897), by P. Huvelin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Romance of the Law Merchant: Being an Introduction to the Study of International and Commercial Law, With Some Account of the Commerce and Fairs of the Middle Ages (London: Sweet and Maxwell Ltd., 1923), by Wyndham Anstis Bewes, contrib. by Richard Atkin (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Old Showmen, and the Old London Fairs (second edition; London: Tinsley Bros, 1875), by Thomas Frost (Gutenberg text)

• Famous Frosts and Frost Fairs in Great Britain: Chronicled From the Earliest to the Present Time (London: G. Redway, 1887), by William Andrews
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• List of Markets and Fairs Now and Formerly Held in Scotland, With Notes as to the Charters, Acts of Parliament, and Other Documents by Which The Right to Hold Them Has Been Conferred (1890), by James D. Marwick, contrib. by Great Britain Royal Commission on Market Rights and Tolls (page images at HathiTrust)

• World Trade Information Service (partial serial archives)

• A Day at the County Fair (c1916), by Alice Hale Burnett, illust. by Charles F. Lester (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Adventures of a Country Boy at a Country Fair (Boston: C. E. Brown and Co., c1893), by James Otis (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Hobby Horses (New York: Derrydale Press, 1940), by Amy Freeman Lee (page images at HathiTrust)

• My Dobbin (published under "Gilly Bear" pseudonym; New York: S. Gabriel and Sons Co., c1916), by Gilbert W. Gabriel, illust. by A. E. Kennedy (page images at childrensbooksonine.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Meet Me at the Fair: A World's Fair Reader (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, c2014), ed. by Laura Holden Hollengreen, Celia Pearce, Rebecca Rouse, and Bobby Schweizer (PDF with commentary at CMU)

• Calcutta International Exhibition, 1883-84: Report of the Royal Commission for Victoria, at the Calcutta International Exhibition, 1883-84 (Melbourne, Australia: J. Ferres, Govt. printer, 1884), by Royal Commission for Victoria, contrib. by J. Bosisto (PDF at Stanford)

• The Royal Abbey of Saint-Denis in the Time of Abbot Suger (1122-1151) (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1981), contrib. by Sumner McK. Crosby, Jane Hayward, Charles T. Little, and William D. Wixom (page images and PDF with commentary at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• Greek Art of the Aegean Islands (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1979), ed. by Dietrich Von Bothmer and Joan R. Mertens (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• In Pursuit of Beauty: Americans and the Aesthetic Movement (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1986), by Doreen Bolger (page images and PDF with commentary at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• Shibusa: Extracting Beauty (Huddersfield: University of Huddersfield Press, c2012), ed. by Monty Adkins and Pip Dickens (PDF with commentary in the UK)

• Josef Albers: A Retrospective (1988), by Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, contrib. by Neal David Benezra, Mary Emma Harris, Charles E. Rickart, Diane Waldman, and Nicholas Fox Weber, illust. by Josef Albers (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Intersecting Colors: Josef Albers and His Contemporaries (Amherst, MA: Amherst College Press, c2015), ed. by Vanja Malloy (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• Pierre Alechinsky: Margin and Center (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1987), contrib. by Pierre Alechinsky, Michael Gibson, and Octavio Paz (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Dosso Dossi: Court Painter in Renaissance Ferrara (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1998), by Peter Humfrey and Mauro Lucco, contrib. by Andrea Rothe, Andrea Bayer, Dawson W. Carr, Jadranka Bentini, and Anna Coliva (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Resplendence of the Spanish Monarchy: Renaissance Tapestries and Armor from the Patrimonio Nacional (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1991), by Antonio Domínguez Ortiz, Concha Herrero Carretero, and José-A. Godoy (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• 1492: An Ongoing Voyage (full exhibition catalog; Washington: Library of Congress, 1992), ed. by John R. Hébert (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Ongoing Voyage, 1492-1992: The Library of Congress Quincentenary Exhibition (exhibition companion pictorial publication, in English and Spanish; Washington: Library of Congress, 1992), ed. by John R. Hébert (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Ongoing Voyage, 1492-1992: The Library of Congress Quincentenary Exhibition (exbibition brochure, in Spanish and English; 1992), by Library of Congress
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • Web adaptation, in English only: illustrated HTML at loc.gov

• Leonardo da Vinci: Anatomical Drawings from the Royal Library, Windsor Castle (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1983), by Kenneth D. Keele and Jane Roberts (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• Church's Great Picture: The Heart of the Andes (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1993), by Kevin J. Avery (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Antonello da Messina: Sicily's Renaissance Master (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven and London: Yale University Press, c2005), by Gioacchino Barbera, contrib. by Keith Christiansen and Andrea Bayer, illust. by Antonello da Messina (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Congoville: Contemporary Artists Tracing Colonial Tracks / Hedendaagse Kunstenaars Bewandelen Koloniale Sporen (in English and Dutch; Leuven: Leuven University Press, c2021), ed. by Pieter Boons, Sandrine Colard, and Veerle De Laet (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Sixty Years of Living Architecture: The Work of Frank Lloyd Wright (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1953), by Frank Lloyd Wright (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Paintings from the Arensberg and Gallatin Collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1961), contrib. by Henry Clifford (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Paintings from the Arensberg and Gallatin Collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1961), contrib. by Henry Clifford (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Books Go to War: The Armed Services Editions in World War Two, by Daniel J. Miller (illustrated HTML at Virginia)

• Heroic Armor of the Italian Renaissance: Filippo Negroli and His Contemporaries (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1998), by Stuart W. Pyhrr and José-A. Godoy, ed. by Silvio Leydi (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Resplendence of the Spanish Monarchy: Renaissance Tapestries and Armor from the Patrimonio Nacional (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1991), by Antonio Domínguez Ortiz, Concha Herrero Carretero, and José-A. Godoy (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Heroic Armor of the Italian Renaissance: Filippo Negroli and His Contemporaries (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1998), by Stuart W. Pyhrr and José-A. Godoy, ed. by Silvio Leydi (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• The Private Collection of Edgar Degas (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1997), by Ann Dumas, Colta Feller Ives, Susan Alyson Stein, and Gary Tinterow, trans. by Mark Polizzotti, contrib. by Françoise Cachin, Caroline Durand-Ruel Godfroy, Richard Kendall, Mari Kálmán Meller, Juliet Wilson-Bareau, Rebecca A. Rabinow, Theodore Reff, and Barbara Stern Shapiro (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)
• The Private Collection of Edgar Degas: A Summary Catalogue (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1997), by Colta Feller Ives, Susan Alyson Stein, and Julie A. Steiner, contrib. by Ann Dumas, Rebecca A. Rabinow, and Gary Tinterow (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)
• A Century of Loan Exhibitions, 1813-1912 (5 volumes; London: A. Graves, 1913-1915), by Algernon Graves (page images at HathiTrust; some volumes US access only)
• The Art of the Exposition: Personal Impressions of the Architecture, Sculpture, Mural Decorations, Color Scheme and Other Aesthetic Aspects of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, by Eugen Neuhaus (Gutenberg text)
• The Galleries of the Exposition: A Critical Review of the Paintings, Statuary and the Graphic Arts in the Palace of Fine Arts at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, by Eugen Neuhaus (Gutenberg text)

• European Helmets, 1450-1650: Treasures from the Reserve Collection (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000), by Stuart W. Pyhrr (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• European Helmets, 1450-1650: Treasures from the Reserve Collection (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000), by Stuart W. Pyhrr (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Resplendence of the Spanish Monarchy: Renaissance Tapestries and Armor from the Patrimonio Nacional (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1991), by Antonio Domínguez Ortiz, Concha Herrero Carretero, and José-A. Godoy (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Contemporary Ceramics: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1998), by Jane Adlin (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• Contemporary Ceramics: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1998), by Jane Adlin (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• American Abstract Expressionists and Imagists (c1961), by Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, ed. by H. H. Amason (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Primitive Negro Art, Chiefly From the Belgian Congo (Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn Museum Dept. of Ethnology, 1923), ed. by Stewart Culin
  • page images at brooklynmuseum.org
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• William Rimmer: Champion of Imagination in American Art (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2022), by Dorinda Evans (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Age of Spirituality: Late Antique and Early Christian Art, Third to Seventh Century (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1979), ed. by Kurt Weitzmann (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org)
• Ancient Art From New York Private Collections: Catalogue of an Exhibition Held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, December 17, 1959-February 28, 1960 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1961), by Dietrich Von Bothmer (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Decade of Collecting, 1984-1993: Friends of Asian Art Gifts (New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1993), ed. by Judith G. Smith (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.