[Trade Catalogue]

Foreign Edition. Montgomery Ward & Co. Chicago & Kansas City. Catalogue No. 81 ... [cover title]

Chicago, Montgomery Ward & Co., 1912.

Large quarto (331 × 237 mm), 880 extensively illustrated pages plus 52 colour plates.

Three-colour pictorial wrappers; trifling silverfish damage (mainly marginal) to the top corner of the last six leaves; acidic paper uniformly tanned and slightly brittle; tears to the edges of some leaves expertly sealed; occasional short closed marginal tears; chips to a few leading margins; six leaves of colour plates of rugs and soft furnishings between pages 384-385 detached and now housed separately in a custom-made Mylar pocket (a few leading edges are a little chipped); overall an excellent copy of an item definitely not made to survive as well as this example has done.

The colour plates are a highlight: they include women's shoes (16 plates); men's wear (12 plates); rugs and soft furnishings (12 plates); and books (4 plates).

Item #127339

Price (AUD): $600.00
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