Philadelphia: Keighton Printing House, 1891. thick 8vo. original cloth. 290, 157+(1), v pages. B1-2027. Based on the census of 1890. Filled with illustrations and advertisements for various businesses. Bookplate of the Delaware collector, Henry I. Law, on front pastedown. Front inside hinge cracked.
framed, variously measured. Five frames holding a total of twenty bookplates from notable American industrialists. Industrialists include: the philanthropist Andrew Carnegie and his wife Louise Whitfield Carnegie, Tobacco manufacturer Pierre Lorillard, banker and aviation consultant William A. M. Burden, iron ore conglomerate Samuel Mather, inventor King C. Gillette, mercantilist Lewis Rodman Wanamaker, industrial Isabel Weld Perkins Anderson, mercantilist W. Atlee Burpee, Jr., automotive tycoon Walter Chrysler, industrialist J. Ogden Armour, industrialist Henry Harkness Flagler, newspaper.....
