by MANNING, BOWMAN, & CO
(COLOR PRINTING-TRADE CATALOGUE) MANNING, BOWMAN, & CO. ILLUSTRATED CATALOG AND PRICE LIST OF PERFECTION GRANITE IRONWARE AND DECORATED PEARL AGATE. Meridian, Connecticut and New York: 1892. Folio. (iii),Frontispiece view of extensive factory, 1-70, 101-150, 201-224, 301-342, as issued. A rare trade catalogue. Romaine located one copy at the Metropolitan Museum Art and OCLC located copies at Winterthur and the Connecticut Historical Society. This catalogue is notable for its exquisite color-printed wood engravings of tea and coffee pots and accoutrements, tureens, canisters, dish jars, cuspidors, and hotel/restaurant ware. The engravings were by Sanford & Lohmann, color inks from Chas. Eneu Johnson, and printing by E.A. Horton. In contemporary accounts, Horton is mentioned as a "fancy" printer, who's output was "the last word" in printing. Laid-in is a color flier for "The New Mikad Pearl Agateware." A handsome documentation of material culture. Gilt and stamped cloth, worn along edges and at extremities. Some stains on front flo endpapers; free endpaper torn with small piece missing. Otherwise, near very good copy. (40442).
(Inventory #: 40442)