THE BELFAST AND ULSTER TRADES DIRECTORY ACCOMPANIED WITH A GAZETTEER OF IRELAND, 1900
Edinburgh, Scotland and Birmingham, England: Trades' Directories, Limited, 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 7 in. x 8.5in., 242 p. + 2 p. advertising + 37 p., Dark geen cloth boards with embossed frame in blind and gilt title. Rubbing to boards. Corners are still sharp. Scuffing and staining to front and back boards. Hinges professionally reinforced. Spine is tight. Belfast business advertising on front pastedown, two pages following p. 242, and rear endpapers. Repaired hinges are firm. Good. Item #85405
Precursor of the Yellow Pages! A 1900 listing of business addresses and solicitors (with occasional 3-digit phone numbers) for Belfast and Ulster County, organized by occupation.
Brewers, Coopers, Ironmongers, Ship Smiths, Oyster Saloons.
An author writing about turn of the 19th century Belfast, would most likely trade her firstborn cat for this incredibly rich opportunity to fashion fiction from this real-life source-providing data, because it potentially provides the nit and the grit of about daily Irish life a century and a quarter ago.
Price: $450.00