print; catalogue; pamphlet; advertisement

Print made by: Anonymous

1855

paper; woodcut; letterpress

British Museum

Pamphlet of Hyam & Co, clothiers, at 86 Oxford Street West, London, advertising spring and summer fashions for men, youths and children, as well as ladies' equestrian habits, annotated with the date 1855. Four-page pamphlet; text on front cover in a rectangle decorated with flourishes and figures dressed in different costumes; double-page spread inside, with… a view of many figures in different costumes in a sociable group in front of the terrace steps outside the Crystal Palace, a sign on a pillar at left 'Crystal Palace / The band', hierogylphs above, two monumental statues of sphinxes behind at right, further figures beyond; back