Bedsteads and bedding : twenty thousand bedsteads of every description in stock : manufacturers of pure bedding / Maple & Co
This is a late-Victorian trade catalogue from the London furniture firm Maple & Co, issued in 1895 to sell bedsteads and bedding to retail customers. The pictures are colour plates of brass and iron bedsteads drawn in flat, crisp outline with bright gilt and black highlights against a plain ground. A designer could take from them the ornate turned knobs, spindles and scroll-cast panels of Victorian metalwork, plus the clean catalogue layout with printed model numbers and price tables.
