News for Buyers: An illustrated catalogue of fancy dry goods (Vol. VI, No. 6. February, 1895)

Quarto, wraps printed in pale blue, 48pp. Very Good with vertical crease throughout volume, sunning to rear wrap, else crisp and clean. Original order blank tipped in. The first 10 pages comprise the "news" from the trade, edited by Nelson H. Grover, including reports on the annual meeting of the Walker-Stetson-Sawyer Co. and bios of famous men, like patent medicine superstars J. C. Ayer and C. I. Hood.

The rest of the volume is a catalog of merchandise, heavy on women and children's clothing and accessories, and household goods. Includes corsets and supportive aids, like the "Cluze Patent Thumb" compression glove, and "Parker's Arctic Socks--A preventative of coughs, colds, pneumonia and kindred troubles." Marketed especially to retail shop owners, it includes cash register and shop display ads. Wonderfully varied and profusely illustrated. A scarce catalog, represented by any issue in only 5 institutions, and only 3 with pre-1900 copies.