The furniture trade catalogue: containing designs for every description of modern furniture, of the styles in general demand : with copious descriptive index and price list

Abstract

Originally published 1877. A very comprehensive work showing a total of 518 illustrations of furniture designs for the Hall, Library, Breakfast and Dining Room, Drawing Room and Bed Room. These designs can be taken to represent stock commercial production of furniture in the 1880s. This work is included in E. Joy, Pictorial Dictionary of British 19th Century Furniture Design (1977): “Wyman and Sons differed from commercial producers in that they were printers, of Great Queen Street, London. From this address they published a number of periodicals including the Furniture Gazette, hence their connection with furniture catalogues. They published a series of Cabinet Makers’ Pattern Books in 1877, with a third edition in 1882 and subsequent editions at intervals. Price lists were issued with the Pattern Books so that retailers could take orders and quote prices with the knowledge that they could obtain the items from the big wholesalers such as C. & R. Light.” (p. xlii). Wyman & Sons also offered their printing services to cabinet makers “who may be desirous of issuing catalogues of their own” - they would take the original drawings and transform them into lithographs and thence into catalogues. (Charles Wood, cat. 167, # 65)