HENRY HOPE and SONS Ltd — Hope's Metal Windows and Casements

Birmingham, Kynoch Press for Hope's 1926 152pp, many bw photographs, additional leaf loosely inserted (celebrating the use of Hope's products for the new Custom House in Shanghai, confirmed after the main book went to press) 38x25, paper covered boards, black cloth spine, pasted labels on front and spine Cloth a bit faded, worn on top and bottom edges, spine label mostly missing, boards rubbed, eps spotted, binding cracked between pages 2 and 3, contents very good. Beautifully presented trade catalogue from this well known window manufacturer. The first part is devoted to techical specification of the company's products, with very large scale and clear illustrations, while the final 75 pages are photos of the many buildings across the world where their windows had been installed. London's County Hall, Bourne and Hollingsworth's new department store on Oxford Street, commercial and municipal buildings in Rotterdam, Buenos Aires and Shanghai, Universities in North America and the newly built clubhouse at Winged Foot Golf Club in New York all feature among many others.