Methods of Business of the Largest Establishment in the World for the Manufacture and Sale of Men's Wear

Printed wraps with three engraved vignettes of Wanamaker buildings—including the recently shuttered building at 13th and Market, which remained in operation as a department store until April 2025. 16mo, 6 x 4.5 inches. 16pp with light soil and shallow chipping at the foredge of the front wrap, Very Good overall.

"Printed at our own Steam-power Printing Office"—notably in the novelty blue ink also used that year by nearby publisher Stoddard to print Pancoast's Blue and Red Light and Auguston Pleasonton's The Influence of the Blue Ray of the Sunlight—placing Philadelphia at the epicenter of the "blue glass craze" (a debunked theory that blue light could work wonders on the health of humans and crops, alike). Later editions of Pleasonton had to be printed on blue paper due to ink fading, which isn't a problem here.