Catalogue 63 New Century Antiquarian Books Late Spring 2012

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[21] AUSTRALASIAN IMPLEMENT & HOUSE FURNISHING COMPANY. Furnishing Catalogue [wrapper title]. Adelaide, Sharples Bros., Catalogue Printers [for Australasian Implement & House Furnishing Company], [September 1909]. Quarto, pp. viii, 264 + four plates ( including one large folding plate, and two colour plates) + tipped-in leaf (“December, 1910. Lines Discontinued and Prices Altered in Furnishing Catalogue Issued September, 1909”), profusely illustrated throughout (a number of pages with colour) with photographs and line drawings; a few pencilled alterations to prices, a little general use but an excellent copy, very clean and sound, in original red nicely illustrated titling-wrappers (illustration of a young lady floral arranging, with highlights of white). $3300 Rare: an exceptional and remarkably well-illustrated catalogue of pre-war Edwardian furnishings published by “the Great North Terrace House Furnishing & Machinery Emporium”, conveniently situated opposite the erstwhile North Terrace Passenger Railway Station (it’s a casino now, isn’t it), useful for the firm’s
many well-heeled rural customers who bought not only their furniture there but also their farm machinery or irrigation equipment, although these lines are not, of course, included in this vast catalogue. The two colour plates are of Carpets and Patterns of Floorcloth and Linoleum. The large folding photographic plate at page 9 (the Royal Suite: chair, dressing-table, wardrobe, washstand, pedestal cupboard) is imperfect, with a neat enough old repair at the torn fold, but with some loss, there is also a defect in the outer edge with a little of the picture gone (see illustration). Produced without stinting on cost, with its index, profuse illustration, and priced throughout, the catalogue is a comprehensive picture of the elegant Edwardian home in this most European of communities. There is a 1918 furnishing catalogue from the firm in the State Library of South Australia (112 pages) and a 1927 furnishing catalogue at Deakin University (also 112 pages). Apart from those two later pieces there appear to be no other holdings of this firm’s remarkable furniture catalogues; certainly nothing as early or as substantial.
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