7 inches x 6 inches (18 cms x 15 cms); 88 pages of hair styles and hair ornaments and goods, with prices, stapled as issued in original soft card wrappers, illustrations throughout.
A lovely copy in near-original condition, with merely the slightest amount of pulling on the staples at front and rear.
The whole work, including the text and early half-tone illustrations, is printed in dark brown ink throughout by the Hollister Press, Manz Engraving Company, Chicago, one of the United States's major half-tone producers.
Preliminary research has been unable to locate any information on the Burnham Company beyond mention of advertisements in the Pictorial Review, January, 1911 and McCall's, January 1911 for "Burnham Hair Goods". The New York Public Library also displays
an image of a press advertisement for "E. Burnham Coiffures 1910" in its Picture Collection Online.
Although this item claims itself to be "Catalogue Number Forty" no earlier Burnham catalogue, or any later reprint, has been located in any major library. However, at this period, exaggerated claims by publishers, printers and manufacturers to establish
credibility or popularity of their products were not uncommon.
All in all, an outstanding visual, and apparently very scarce, record of US hairstyles prior to the first World War.
A lovely item, full of historical interest, for any business or individual involved in the hair and beauty business.
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