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.