Barton Tailoring Company — Styles Correctly Designed for Men and Young Men: Fall 1929 - Winter 1930 ; [Lovely Period Tailor's Trade Catalogue]

Montréal, Quebec Barton Tailoring Company First Edition, First Printing Unpaginated [15 leaves]. Folio. Original thick salmon-pink illustrated card stock covers, secured with five staples. Comprising fifteen lovely full-page (chiefly) colour illustrations, printed to rectos only, depicting a range of period men’s fashions for the Fall and Winter seasons of 1929/1930, including outerwear, formal wear, business suits, and leisure attire. Each plate captioned with its respective catalogue number and a descriptive statement, many accompanied by pricing for optional alterations. Covers rubbed with some tide-marks; staples showing rust with minor associated staining; leaves remain bright overall, with faint tide-marks confined to the lower margins of most leaves (not affecting the vibrancy of the illustrations nor the legibility of the text). Unrecorded in the trade. WorldCat records only two related catalogues by the same firm. Corresponds to OCLC #225490117 and #144617435 which records a single institutional holding of each, held at Fisher Library, University of Toronto; and the American Textile History Museum Library, respectively. An overall well-preserved example of Canadian tailoring ephemera offering a representative visual survey of menswear from the interwar period. Lovely indeed.