Author: Bennett's Ironfoundry Co
Title: Catalogue of Biclam Cast Iron Tables, Also Seats
Description: Manchester, Richard Johnson & Sons, c1897 . Paperback. A very scarce catalogue advertising the cast iron furniture manufactured by the Bennett Ironfoundry in the late nineteenth century. A very scarce catalogue of 'Biclam' cast iron tables and seats.With a loosely inserted typed memorandum, dated March 1897, addressed to the Chairman of the Parks Committee, Salford Town Hall, from Bennett's Ironfoundry, who manufactured these tables and seats.The message reads 'we understand a large quantity of seats will be required for the new park which is being laid out by Salford Corporation and we should like very much to have an opportunity of supplying some of them. We would respectfully draw your attention to the patterns shown in the enclosed catalogue&apos.The catalogue consists of hundreds of monochrome illustrations of cast iron tables and chairs, along with prices.When exhibiting at the Manchester Jubilee Exhibition of 1887, Bennett"s Ironfoundry described themselves as a "supplier of round and square tables for restaurants, hotels, coffee taverns, tea gardens, parlours and occasional tables and flower stands for drawing room". In the publisher's original paper wraps. Light discolouration and handling marks to wrap perimeters. Vertical fold to centre of work. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright, with light spotting to page perimeters. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good Indeed .

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