Seeley Brothers : Manufacturers of Averill Paint, ready for Use

1889. SEELEY BROTHERS. Seeley Brothers: Manufacturers of Averill Paint, ready for Use. 20 Plates, with 1 page with 39 tipped on paint chips and 2 full-page coloured advertisements, one with 12 tipped-on colour chips. Folio, 335 x 250 mm, publisher's cloth. New York: The Company, 188- [hand annotated as 1889 on pasted-on bookplate]. A fine copy of a splendid and extremely rare nineteenth century American paint catalogue, which has increased importance owing to the plates depicting the use of colour on houses. This copy for use by Seeley clients, with the Seeley bookplate. A triumph of American nineteenth century bookmaking. It's rarity is attested to by OCLC, which lists only U.Maryland, U. Delaware and Winterthur.