My great aunt has recently left me her house and what I have found buried away is simply amazing. I possess the Metropolitan Fashion cataloge from 1896 spring and summer from The Butterick Publishing Company. The price printed is over the counter 20 cents, or 30 cents by mail. I believe it to be one of the large desk copies since it is 15" by 18" long. Every page is completely ledigable and intact, there are two pages with a tear on the outside of the page about 2 inches in length and one page with a tear half way to the inside of the page, but under no circustance torn to the binding or misleading to the reader. Most of the pattern numbers are around the 8000's It's a beautiful piece of history even with the ware on the binding, which does not include any tears....the original staples are still in place! There is a front and back cover with 122 pages inbetween.  On the back cover an ad for Pears' soap covers the page.

My email is [email protected] and my name is Heather (Pittsburgh, Pennslyvania).              Front cover of the cataloge                                       Price stamp from Butterick

            Example of Legibility of each page.                         Back cover...Ad for Pears' Soap.