Illustrated hardware trade catalogue

by Trade Catalogue, Guillaume Bruyas

$13,500 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

Contemporary full black morocco, front board with blind-stamped and gilt borders and lettering, marbled endpapers A remarkable and unique mid-nineteenth-century manuscript trade catalogue for the Lyon hardware firm of Guillaume Bruyas, documenting in meticulous watercolour drawings the range of stock available from a provincial manufacturer and ironmonger in one of France’s principal industrial centres. The album presents an extraordinary array of wares:

• Binding: Leather

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