Catalogue - tiles. Minton, Hollins & Co. Stoke Upon Trent.

[Catalogue of art-painted tiles, enamelled tiles and embossed Majolica tiles].

Minton Hollins c1873. Small folio (33x22cm) publisher's cloth backed printed boards (ink stain on front cover); 2pp and 25 chromolitho plates, 12pp price list loosely inserted. Minor signs of use, the ink stain apart a rather good copy.
¶ Here we have the arty tiles those for walls, surrounds and so on. Encaustic and paving tile patterns were available separately from the company. Around 1870 there was a split between the partners of Minton and for a short while there were two companies making Minton tiles until a law suit settled the matter. Hence the stern declaration on the cover - and the price list - that the patents and the name belong this firm. Both cover and price list include their 1873 Vienna exposition medal and a slip added to the price list announces a price rise in August 1872 - 10% will be added to the prices here. Maybe once a week for years and years - this was a long time ago when I kept shop with open doors in Sydney - an unappealing man would come in and ask if we had a 19th century Minton tile catalogue. When I said no, he said, "I do." I think he had some job that would be unspeakably dull but that it allowed him to tour the bookshops of greater Sydney assuring us all that he had a Minton tile catalogue. The last time I went to a Sydney book fair there he was, asking the same question with such anticipation that he barely paused for the answer before his inevitable boast. I don't remember his name, I don't know if he's still alive and I have no wish to see him ever again but still, still, I would like to say, "Why yes, yes I do".

Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional seller

Book number: 10458

Keywords: trade catalogues architecture building materials design manufactures c19th England tiles ceramics applied arts tiles

Catalogue - Garden Furniture. John P. White, Bedford.

A Complete Catalogue of Garden Furniture and Garden Ornament. By John P. White, The Pyghtle Works, Bedford ... Xmas, 1906.

Bedford 1906. Quarto publisher's printed wrapper (a missing piece from the back wrapper expertly replaced); 112pp illustrated in line and photo throughout. A couple of related flyers loosely inserted, quite a good copy.
¶ From pots to bridges and greenhouses; an extensive range, essential for the chic but thoroughly English - ie Arts & Crafts - garden. White made furniture designed by Baillie Scott and some of this stuff may well be his but the designs here are, with two exceptions, uncredited except by inference from a passing remark to White himself. The two credited are by The Hon. Mrs. Anstruther. You don't withold credit from someone like her. Many of the drawings are signed and while it isn't clear that the artist was also the designer those signed 'J.C.' are likely by James Crossland who designed furniture for White at about this time.

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Book number: 8918

Keywords: architecture design landscape gardens c20th arts & crafts modernism

Catalogue - clothing. E. Rosenburger, New York City.

A Dark Secret is Let Out By [cover title; inside:] The Clothing Specialists of America. E. Rosenburger & Co.

NY, the company [c1890]. Large octavo (26x18cm) publisher's illustrated wrapper; [16]pp, illustrated by wood engravings throughout. A vertical fold, a rumpled but very decent copy.
¶ A splendid example of the value that even the most casual racism adds to any advertising. Who could resist opening this to find out what could so shock this mammy? What is it about images like this that made them so successful? It can't just be that they were funny, nor that they comforted one race nursing a fear of another. And what makes them so magnetic now? It can't just be that they shock us? And what is the dark secret? I've been right through this and I'm still not convinced there isn't some secret beyond Rosenburger's cheap suits for men and boys. I can't find this or any Rosenburger catalogue in Romaine, McKinstry or anywhere else I can think of looking.

Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional seller

Book number: 9783

Keywords: trade catalogues c19th America costume clothing fashion race racism black African-American

Catalogue - perambulators and carriages. Halesowen, Brirmingham.

Halesown Perambulator & Carriage Co, Ltd. Illustrated Catalogue. Season 1895.

The company 1895. Quarto publisher's illustrated wrapper (a bit frayed, with some discreet old repairs); 40pp, illustrated throughout with wood engravings.
¶ Some pretty desirable stuff, a child's hansom cab for instance; inexplicably elaborate mail carts, kids rocking horses and tricycles and more.

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Book number: 9285

Keywords: trade catalogues c19th England manufactures perambulators, prams, carriages, transport

Catalogue - Hammers. Henry Cheney, Little Falls.

Illustrated Catalogue of the Henry Cheney Hammer Company. 1912.

The company 1912. Octavo, publisher's heavy wrapper blocked in gilt; 28pp, colour illustrations throughout; several supplementary sheets loosely inserted. A very good copy.

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Book number: 7819

Keywords: trade catalogues tools hardware manufactures trades work c20th technology metal

Catalogue - Hardware. The Penn Hardware Company, Reading, PA.

Illustrated Catalogue of General Hardware Manufactured by the Penn Hardware Company ... 1883.

Reading, printed by Coleman 1883. Quarto publisher's cloth (spine tips a little worn); x,143pp, wood engraved illustrations throughout. A rather good copy.
¶ Builder's hardware and household goods handsomely illustrated, often at full size. The household goods include some lamps, inkstands and a couple of toy savings banks.

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Book number: 8572

Keywords: architecture building materials trade catalogues c19th America metal hardware trades manufactures

Catalogue - medical and dental equipment. Kawai Shoten, Tokyo.

[Iryokikkai Zufu?].

Tokyo, Kawai Shoten 1917 (Taisho 6). 22x15cm publisher's printed wrapper (covers somewhat shabby & ragged); [4],200pp, illustrated throughout. A used but decent copy.
¶ An extensive catalogue of medical and dental equipment and all the necessary ancillaries - furniture, laboratory equipment, a few artificial limbs, and so on. This is Kawai's fifth catalogue but I can't find a record of any of them.

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Book number: 10536

Keywords: trade catalogues science medicine dentistry manufactures trades c20th Japan modernism

Catalogue - fashion. Cleghorn & Harris, Cape Town.

A Journal of Fashions for the Summer Season 1902-3.

The company 1902. Folio (37x25cm) publisher's printed wrapper with onlaid colour illustrations (a colour view of their building on the back); [2],142pp illustrated throughout in line and half-tone. Used with some minor flaws, a more than decent copy. Order form detached at the end but the gent's half still present.
¶ An expansive and handsome catalogue of dress of all layers for all occasions for women, men, children and infants. As well: fancy work, drapery and haberdashery, household goods, stationery, clocks and watches, and a couple of pages of cricket equipment. How many catalogues like this Cleghorn and Harris issued remains a mystery to me; I can't find a record of any catalogue anywhere, including South Africa.

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Book number: 9364

Keywords: trade catalogues fashion costume c20th South Africa textiles applied arts

Catalogue - hearses. Merts & Riddle, Ravenna, Ohio.

Merts & Riddle, Coach and Hearse Builders.

Ravenna, printed by S.D. Harris [188-?]. Oblong octavo publisher's illustrated wrapper; 50pp, full page wood engraved illustrations throughout. A remarkably good copy.
¶ Ravenna was clearly more than a one hearse town in the later 19th and early 20th centuries. Merts and Riddle bought their employer's coach building company in 1861 and expanded into hearses a decade or so later. When Merts left in 1891 the company became Riddle Coach & Hearse Co. This is the earliest catalogue - dated "1880 or so" - in the collection of Thomas Riddle, descendant and company historian. The catalogues at the Huntington with a conjectured date of 1875 aren't. Romaine did not see any Merts & Riddle catalogues.

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Book number: 10395

Keywords: trade catalogues c19th America coaches carriages transport hearses death funerals

Catalogue - Pharmaceuticals. McKesson & Robbins, New York.

Prices Current of Drugs and Druggists' Articles, chemical and pharmaceutical preparations, proprietry medicines & perfumery, sponges, corks, dyes, paints, etc., etc., etc.

New York 1879. Octavo publisher's flush cut limp cloth, front titled in gilt; 224pp, numerous wood engraved illustrations. One section excepted, printed on pink paper. A rather good copy.
¶ As well as the goods listed in the title this offers scales, glassware, brushes, surgical instruments and English toothbrushes, and still more.

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Book number: 8549

Keywords: trade catalogues drugs medicine pharmacies c19th America cosmetics trades technology

Catalogue - Pharmaceuticals. Weeks & Potter, Boston.

Revised Catalogue of Foreign and Domestic Drugs, selected powders, fine essential oils, waters and extracts ... wines and liquors, proprietry medicines, druggists shop furniture ... sundries and surgical appliances, sponges, fancy goods, and toilet articles.

Boston 1890. Octavo publisher's limp cloth, the front titled in black (spine browned and a bit rubbed); 468,130pp, profusely illustrated with wood engravings and a handsome full page colour lithograph of a bottle of their Beef, Iron and Wine. Used but solid and very decent. The second section consists of advertisements.
¶ The advertisements include a warning by Dr S.A. Richmond of Tuscola, Illinois, against fraudulent companies selling bogus versions of his justly celebrated Samaritan Nervine. He prints the text of a judgment against such a company and invites the many thousands of those he has saved from epilepsy, insanity and death to join him "lashing these ignorant, impotent, piratical scoundrels through the earth with a whip of scorpions."

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Book number: 8552

Keywords: trade catalogues drugs medicine pharmacies c19th America cosmetics trades technology

Catalogue - Iron gates, fences &c. Handa Shonosuke Shoten.

[Sentetsuseio Monpi Tetsusakurui?].

Tokyo, Handa Shonosuke Shoten [c1913]. Lithograph broadside 40x56cm. A couple of small blotches, still a nice copy.
¶ A handsome array of iron gates, fences and doors. Very similar - but not quite the same - to a broadside from the same place dated 1913.

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Book number: 10606

Keywords: trade catalogues architecture materials landscape iron c20th Japan modernism manufactures 27/6/2019

Catalogue - Cast Iron. A. Durenne, Paris &c.

Societe Anonyme des Etablissement Metallurgiques A. Durenne.

The company c1900. Octavo publisher's cloth backed boards (rubbed and a bit worn); [2],727pp, thousands of illustrations. Used but decent enough.
¶ An enormous range of balustrades for balconies, staircases, bridges, friezes and fringes, door panels and fanlights, balusters, columns, pilasters, finials, grilles and gates, etc. Printed earlier but issued after the 1900 Universal Exposition, with a stamp on the title announcing their prize.

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Book number: 8573

Keywords: architecture building cast iron trade catalogues metal materials c19th France manufactures trades

Catalogue - Gravestones. D.L. Kent & Co. East Dorset, Vt.

Turned Marble Monuments, Urns, etc.

[c1870-80?]. Lithographed broadside, 59x72cm, illustrating 21 designs. Unfolded, in excellent shape.
¶ Restrained and classical, not a barley twist or angel in sight.

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Book number: 8603

Keywords: trade catalogues gravestones cemeteries death c19th America landscape sculpture trades marble

Catalogue - hats. Watanabe, Tokyo.

The Watanabe's Catalogue : Full fashioned and hand finished. Y. Watanabe & Co., Nihonbashi, Tokyo, Japan.

Tokyo, [1924]. 23x15cm colour illustrated publisher's wrapper; 6pp, profusely illustrated with photo illustrations. An old fold, small stains.
¶ 72 models of hats for men and women; not just women, mogas - modern girls - jazz age women. So, flappers and cool, sinister men; the stuff of dreams. Mention is made of the first anniversary of the 1923 earthquake but the "New Fashion 1924" on the front cover is an even better guide to its date.

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Book number: 11009

Keywords: trade catalogues fashion clothes hats c20th Japan modernism manufactures