[Carnival and theatre] Neumann & Co., Dresden. Catalog Nr. 83. Costüm-Catalog über Carneval u. Theater-Costüme,

Maskenschmuck, Waffen etc. etc. Dresden, n.d. (ca. 1907), (10),196 p., w. "Masszettel für Herren-Costüme" (loose, neatly torn along perforated edge), 12 col. plates (partly inside collation) and num. ills., orig. wr., 4to. Front wr. and pages 23-24 lack a portion of outer lower corner; front wr. also w. large closed tear and sm. hole; paper over spine w. tears and portions lacking. A reproduction of an admission ticket on page 2 shows the date 6 Febr. 1907.

Very nice, extremely rare specialist trade-catalogue, no other copies of this particular catalogue traced. The Neumann firm, founded in 1887, purveyor to the court and located at the Kaiserstraße 5 in Dresden, was one of the few companies specialising in the field of carnival and theatre costumes and related attributes.