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Cover title: Treacher & Co. Ltd. General Merchants. Bombay Byculla & Poona.
1906ref. 21209251906. Mumbai: The Times Press. 1906. 8vo. Publisher's red cloth upper board lettered in gilt spine lettered in black; advertisements to pastedowns; pp. x iv xxi 1 blank '800' i.e. 802 xi-xviii continued pagination from advertisements at front free endpapers included in pagination; pp. ii-x and xi-xvii printed on pink paper numerous lithographic in-text illustrations throughout p. iv printed in pink 23 ff. plates of which 6 on pink paper 9 in colour and 2 double-page pp. 352-530 'Jewellery and Hall-Marked Goods' printed on thick paper; rebacked with original spine laid down plate facing p. 732 with two central closed cuts browning to 2 ff. tipped-in advertisements after p. 330; a very good copy; contemporary manuscript corrections to p. i. An extensively illustrated and very rare Mumbai-printed trade catalogue advertising goods for the British market in India encompassing an extraordinary range of products from gunpowder to soap and everything in between with numerous coloured plates.Treacher & Co. were a prominent British-run firm operating as merchants druggists and chemists based in Bombay Mumbai and Poona Pune during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This extensive catalogue presents a vivid picture of colonial consumption and supply advertising an exhaustive array of merchandise including toiletries; crockery; agricultural machinery and flower and vegetable seeds; pipes; sporting equipment and 'Gymkhana kit' including Brooks' bicycle saddles for both men and women bicycle pumps dumbbells and Sandow's Obesity Reducer and Sandow's Combined Developer; alcoholic drinks as well as 'Sparklet's' carbonation tablets and 'Seltzogenes for the production of sodawater lemonade gingerade &c.'; parlour games including board games billiards roulettes and table bowls; cameras; books and medical remedies; jewellery; and more. The catalogue features numerous plates many chromolithographic or printed on coloured paper advertising china sets gunpowder biscuits tar and vinolia soaps California poppy perfumes Windsor & Newton's paints and hair lotions inter alia. A contemporary owner has corrected in manuscript the names of two of Treacher & Co.'s directors to p. i.No copies traced on OCLC or Library Hub. hardcover
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