General Catalogue 1928-9.

This is a rare or used book from the Berkelouw Rare Books Department.

(Sydney: The Snelling Printing Works 1928). Thick large 4to. Orig. multi-coloured illustrated cloth (covers flecked & worn; contents fine). (xvi 472pp.). Profusely illustrated throughout with both coloured and b/w illusts and all items with prices. Divided into Sections each with a separate index and comprising: Ladies' Frocks Maids' and Children's wear Ladies' Footwear Ladies' Underclothing Laces Gloves Perfumery Haberdashery Manchester Goods Dress and Silk Fabrics Toys Books Stationery Men's and Boys' Wear Furnishing Drapery Carpets and Linoleums Crockery and Glassware Household Ironmongery Garden Tools and Hardware Jewellery Aluminium Ware Gramophones Silverplate Builders' Ironmongery Saddlery Sanitary Ware and Furniture. Overall a fine early retail catalogue of merchandise offered for sale to the Australian public in the late 1920s making this a measure of the fabric of our society at this time. Desirable thus.