1891 · Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois: Wendell and Company, 1891. Very good. Short tears to spine, loose leaves.. A handsome trade catalogue advertising collectible silver spoons manufactured by a Chicago silversmith. Features a highly stylized cover showing their "Puck Spoon", which references a line in Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream" when Puck boasts he can "put a girdle round about the earth in forty minutes". other themed spoons include: orange fruit; floral; tourism spoons (e.g. Santa Fe, New Mexico, sold in bulk to souvenir shops across the country); etching from photographs; hand engraved spoons. Includes testimonials and prices for all the products, with (truncated)