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Folio (55 x 48 cm); 64pp., printed on thick card, 20 full-page colour plates with art deco borders, 4 pages of text with illustrated borders and gilt detail, mounted textile samples in wool, wool-rayon blends, silk, cashmere, tweeds, silk stripe flannels, and more, sample pages also with borders and tiger vignettes and some combined with text and illustrations, patterned endpapers with portrait of the founder Joseph Vehon; original black cloth gilt ruled and embossed, large tiger colour lithohraph logo pasted on to upper cover with the motto 'pay less and dress better', title in gilt to spine, some spotting but otherwise an excellent copy.

2 vols. one vol. landscape 4to (24.5 x 32.5 cm) and one vol. portrait 4to (32.5 x 24.5 cm); 2200 original designs of rings in pencil and pen , all with their catalogue number either in ink or pencil, some t inscriptions in pencil; the landscape album contains about 1000 designs on 54 pages (usually 20 per page, model numbers 2208-2845 and 1-355), in pencil , including some unfinished designs, some drawn with black ink, ( 20 blank pages at rear), the portrait album with a further 1200 designs on 138 pages (mostly 8 per album page, often on both sides, model numbers 4000-5199; both vols bound in contemporary black morocco backed patterned boards, some wear and tear to the extremities; both with brown paper labels with ink numbers; overall a very good example of an unusual jewellery catalogue.

Landscape folio (48.5 x 36.5 cm), 10 thick card sheets containing 67 chromolithographs of pots, tins, bottles, etc, black morocco lettered in gilt on upper cover, light wear to spine and corners.