Catalogue Title:

       The Dress Circle : Just His Size : The Exquisite Something Called Style  (Dandy, Menswear)

Details about this publication:

      Replica of the original trade samples catalog fine accoutrements for me, sold retail and wholesale.
           --  34 pages, in very good, like new condition.  Glossy, flex covers, spiral binding.  
           -- Replica/reprint published by Portable Trunk Publishers. (undated, modern edition)  2003.

Illustrated with trade samples from the era. Thoroughly engaging.

A delightful look into popular fancy men's haberdashery, hats, ties, gloves, canes, under garments, collars, sold directly from the manufactures and specialty pieces sold to retail shops and retail drinking establishments, stores, general merchandise and jobbers.  

Ideal catalog for artists, collectors and antique dealers in finely made menswear, for the 'dandy" popular in America over 100 years ago. 

Perfect guide for collectors, costumers, tailors, makers, designers,restorers, period prop departments or antiques dealers of turn-of-the-century menswear.

About the company:  

The  A. K. BURKHARDT was born in Herschberg, near Zweibriicken, Rhenish provinces, Bavaria, April 26. 1845, and is, therefore, in his thirty-first year. When ten years old, his father died, and he, with his mother and sister, embarked for America the same year, settling with them in Cincinnati immediately after their arrival. In three and a half years after he lost his mother, so, at the age of thirteen, he, with his sister, were left orphans. Mr. Burkhardt attended school in Germany when only six years old, and continued his education in the public-schools of Cincinnati till his mother's death, which occurred in 1859; after which, he entered the employ of Mitchell & Rammelsberg as errand boy at a salary of one dollar per week. This position he occupied only three months, and left to better himself peculiarly, having received an offer of one dollar and fifty cents per week from Jacob Theis, retail hatter and furrier; and here was has first step that has resulted in his present colossal business. Commencing at the lowest possible position, he gradually promoted himself by his strict attention to the duties imposed upon him, till after a few years we find him occupying the loftiest position within the gift of his employer, and a fitting reward for his zealous fidelity to his employer's interests. This position he continued until January, 1867, at which time himself and brother-in-law, F. B. Burkhardt, bought out the business from Mr. Theis. The subject of this sketch assumed sole management.

What success has attended his exertions and shrewd business management is apodictical to us all, for there are few among our readers who do not know Mr. Burkhardt personally or by reputation as taking the lead in the art as hatter and furrier. His business so soon increased that the demand for more capacious accommodations resulted in his leasing the new and spacious salesrooms at 113 West Fourth Street (Mitchell's Block), where he caters to the wants of his customers, though he still keeps the old stand on Main Street. A. E. Burkhardt & Co. are also large exporters of raw skins, their principal shipping-points being Leipzic and London. They receive consignments from every State in the Union, British and South Americas, and have over three thousand correspondents.
     -- Source: Digging Cincinnati --

Soft cover, paperback edition in very good condition, with typical slight wear to edges and spine from being moved around the shop, stored flat.

Firmly readable, ideal for reference and collecting.   Very nice.  
           Clean Text.  Very Good condition.  Text is in English. 
            Reproduced directly from the original.

-- Defects: None found.   Please note that some sections from the original source may have used some smaller text, thus those sections of the reprint may be a little hard to read.                

Modern, undated replica.    -- Facsimile edition

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