Bloomingdale's Illustrated 1886 Catalog, by Bloomingdale Brothers. 158 Pages. Softbound. In 1886, a popular New York department store advertised its wares in a finely illustrated catalog featuring clothing, accessories, housewares, jewelry, and more. This excellent reproduction of that now-rare Bloomingdale Brothers catalog is a fascinating view of 1700 mid-Victorian consumer items together with the original descriptive captions. This entertaining panorama includes bounce jackets, corsets, pinafores, men's nightshirts, smoking jackets...etc! Artists and designers will find this a wonderful sourcebook of copyright-free period graphics and antique collectors, historians, clothing buffs and nostalgia lovers will find it entertaining and indispensable for dating and identifying antiques, clothing and other vintage items. $17.95 (BK-1029)