FOLDING CHAIR MANUFACTORY

(TRADE CATALOGUE)  VAILL, E.W.  FOLDING CHAIR MANUFACTORY.                                                   

Worcester, Massachusetts: (circa 1880). Large folio (23 x 15 inches). (3) pages. First edition.

An illustrated catalogue with pictures of seventy-seven folding chairs, many in the Eastlake manner, and three folding and rotating tables.  The firm won a medal from the United States Centennial Commission at the International Exhibition of 1876 "for variety of style, strength, practicalility and beauty, for comfort, convenience, portability, throughness of workmanship and cheapness."  Four repairs along folds on page three, else very good.  An elevation of the firm's plant is on the first page.  Rare.  No copies cited by OCLC.

 

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