[19TH CENTURY ANTIQUE DEALER'S ILLUSTRATED TRADE CATALOGUES

[19TH CENTURY ANTIQUE DEALER'S ILLUSTRATED TRADE CATALOGUES, NOTTINGHAM INTEREST] - ANTIQUES, CURIOSITIES, AND OBJECTS OF ART on Sale by S Richards, Nottingham. A substantial run of monthly trade catalogues issued by Richards, an antiques dealer of Hounds Gate and Friar Lane in Nottingham, bound in a black-cloth album. The catalogues start with "No 1 New Series Jany 15th 1890" and end "No 96 March 15th 1899". Each monthly catalogue (usually of 6 leaves printed one side only) was lithographed from original hand-drawn leaves made by Richards, the format of which gives the impression that you are looking at a manuscript rather than a printed work. They advertised a fascinating range of antiques and antiquities which Richard's was offering for sale, each item being carefully described, priced, and shown in a line drawing. Scarce