Ledger household : premium catalogue and bargain list no. 1, The
A premium catalogue and bargain list issued in New York in 1895 by Robert Bonner's Sons, the publisher of the Ledger family newspaper, offering goods as gifts to subscribers. Its pictures are small wood-engraved views of pocket watches, showing cases, dial faces and movement interiors in plain black line on tan paper. A designer might take from them the dense crosshatching, floral case engraving and ornamental scroll borders of late nineteenth-century mechanical objects.
