[Commercial Promotional Album Containing Advertisements

(CHROMOLITHOGRAPHY). [Commercial Promotional Album Containing Advertisements and Numerous Beautiful Chromolithographs of Sporting Scenes, Women's Dress, Ornithological Scenes, etc.]. New Haven: George S. Lester, [c. 1890s?]. Folio. 22pp., printed on verso, plus 20 chromolithograph plates. Orig. stamped cloth, rebacked with orig. cloth laid down. Minor edge wear and light soiling, else very good. An attractive collection of advertisements and chromolithographs from the late 19th century, with the advertisements mostly related to Connecticut or Boston companies. The front board reads "Compliments of Hallet, Davis and Co., Piano Manufacturers, Boston, Mass." The advertisements are mostly single-company, full-page ads, with a few featuring more than one company per page. Carriage makers, organ and piano manufacturers, chain makers, lithographers, and more are among the advertisers, with locations ranging from Boston to Bridgeport, New Haven, Middletown, Meriden, and other cities in Connecticut. The chromolithographs, most likely printed in Europe based on the style of the subjects and the printing, feature men in military dress, women in fine clothing, various sporting scenes, a few ornithological views, some rural scenes featuring children, and more. A bookplate from New Haven publisher George S. Lester affixed to the front pastedown indicates the book was the property of a hotel and "is presented for the guests of the house, and should not be removed from this room.".…