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(TRADE CATALOGUE) JACOBSON MANTLE & ORNAMENT CO. CHIMNEY-PIECES. Three volumes. New York: Jacobson Mantle & Ornament Co., (circa 1920s). Oblong 8vo. Decorat wrappers. plates 1-17; plates 41-61; plates 67-105. A scarce set of trade catalogues with only a few examples of any volume recor on OCLC. The set includes the unnumbered first volume with two supplements numbered 2 and 3. With 63 examples of mantles either photographed or with measured drawings representing a vast range of styles: mediaeval, Tudor, Elizabethan, Renaissance, Baroque, rococo, Neo-classical and the recently fashionable Colonial Revival. Very good.