The Household Encyclopaedia of Business and Social Forms - Salesman's Sample

Hartford: Aetna Publishing Co., 1883 (?). First Edition. First printing Good to very good condition bound with two bindings: one decorated cloth & the other and tooled and gilt decorated morocco with all edges worn. Without a dust jacket. This is a salesman's copy of the book as it contains several pages for the inclusion of subscribers' names, their residence and style of binding desired. Both bindings examples have a fold-out flap end which illustrates the style of binding on the spine. Containing approximately 150 representative pages from the 872 pages in the finished product which is followed by a number of blank, ruled pages for the salesman (truncated) to write in subscriber's names and addresses. (Inventory #: TB09198)