Aneroid Barometers. Shortland Bros. (Manchester) Ltd. [Catalogue No. 37 (cover title)]
Manchester, Shortland Bros. [1950s?]. The price-list is loosely inserted. More
Manchester, Shortland Bros. [1950s?]. The price-list is loosely inserted. More
Birmingham, Smith and Davis, Limited, 1939. The catalogue offers a wide range of 'Plumberalities and Gas Fittings, Builders' Hardware, Horticultural Brassware, Domestic and General Brassware, Cabinet Fittings, Picture and Mirror Fittings, Carpet Fittings, [and] Window Fittings'. The first page is headed 'Exp[or]t./39 Please Destroy Earlier Editions in order to avoid..... More
London, Standard Catalogue Company, [circa 1949]. More
London, W. Butcher & Sons Ltd., 1923. More
Leeds, Chas. F. Thackray Ltd, [circa 1955]. The most recent date in the addenda is May 1954; there is a contemporary ownership date of 27 January 1956 on the front free endpaper. An endpocket, now empty, presumably originally contained a price list. More
They are mounted, 'as issued', in concertina-form on cloth. The spine of the first one, 'The Chartfield School Mystery' by Monica Marsden, is also present. This provides the details of the publisher, and paper residue on its cloth backing suggests it was originally tipped into (say) a representative's portfolio of..... More
Birmingham, D. Mason & Sons Limited, [circa 1890s?]. A superb item, with many pages a visual treat, irrespective of the product displayed (or perhaps because of the nature of the objects). The text throughout is in English, French and Spanish. The full title in English is 'D. Mason & Sons..... More
Sheffield, Needham, Veall & Tyzack, Ltd., [circa 1928]. The catalogue contains a number of separate and distinct sections, with broad generic titles, bound in the following order. Section A: Table Cutlery; Section B: Pocket Knives; Section E: Razors; Section D: Scissors and Shears; Section C: Tea Pots (preceded by its..... More
London, Studio Editions, 1995. The book 'brings together pages from the nineteenth-century masterpieces of some of the best-known garden and seed suppliers'. More
Nottingham, William Hollings & Co. Ltd., [1959] (issued for the 1959/60 season, according to the typed label affixed to the inside front cover). The first 21 leaves are Scottish Clan Tartans; the second section, 'Tartan Stripes', contains nine leaves; the final section, 'Scottish Clan Tartans in Miniature', contains only one..... More
Tunstall, Richards Tiles Ltd, [1930s]. More
Stoke-on-Trent, Wengers, Ltd., September 1930 (printed at the foot of the inside rear cover). 'This book is intended to give a rough outline and simple description of the Manufacture of Pottery, commencing with the preparation and composition of the body, raw materials used in the body, the methods of forming..... More
Birmingham, Silk & Terry Ltd., Printers [for The Company], 1924. Number 2781 of an unspecified number of copies of the 1924 edition of the catalogue, issued to Messrs. Keep Brothers, Limited, Merchants (also of Birmingham) on 28 April 1926. Loosely inserted is Hunt & Sons' 4-page 'current list of Discounts..... More