The Eventful Story of Miss Cotton’s Visits. [CLARK & CO.]

Seven full-page colour lithographs and colour illustrations throughout the text.

Small 4to. [242 x 182 x 3 mm]. [8]ff. Original light grey paper stapled wrappers, with an illustration of Brash and Willan shop front on the front and title and reproduction of the first plate on the rear, both printed in bisque, plain endleaves. (Short split at head of spine, slightly marked).
Hull: Brumby & Clarke, Lithographers,[c.1880].

A very good copy. Another unrecorded issue, this time with advertisements for James Lake, 32, 33, and 89, Fore Street, City of London, offering Velveteens and other haberdashery materials. They are printed on the recto of the first leaf and verso of the last. The front cover illustrates a rival establishment, the Drapery of Brash & Willan in South Shields. Henry Brash and Thomas Willan also had shops in Sunderland, and they dissolved their partnership in 1896.

Stock no. ebc7523