[Trade Catalogue]

D. Mason & Sons' [sic] Limited. Illustrated Catalogue of Leather, Saddlery, Harness, Whips, Saddlers' Ironmongery, &c., &c. [cover title]

Birmingham, D. Mason & Sons Limited, [circa 1890s?].

Quarto, [vi], 12 (index), [approximately] 147 pages with thousands of illustrations (many printed in colour). More accurately, apart from the preliminaries, many of the leaves are printed one side only (mainly the recto); there is an additional illustrated page 22A but no page 104; there are six additional unnumbered leaves of text, and unnumbered pages of text on the verso of 10 illustrations; there are 140 pages of illustrations, of which 115 are printed with some colour (and many of them are simply stunning).

Gilt-pictorial dark green cloth, lettered in gilt on the front cover and spine, all edges dyed red; cloth a little flecked and marked, with a few light damp stains to the rear cover (with minimal associated cockling to the leading margin of the last 20 or so leaves); edges slightly marked; title page and last page offset; rear cover blemishes notwithstanding, an excellent copy (internally fine).

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, Birmingham. Manufacturers of Every Description of Leather, Saddlery, Harness, Whips, Military and Naval Equipments, Travelling and Sporting Appointments, Machine Belting, Saddle Trees, Saddlers' Ironmongery, &c., &c.'.

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