The Celebrated "Perfect" Heating Furnaces and Cooking Ranges: "Perfect" Manufactured by Richards & Boynton Co. Catalogue 53.
New York: Bartlett & Company, The Orr Press, [circa 1896]. Octavo (20.5 x 14 cm.), 97 pages. Date derived from Water Street address on title page. An extensively illustrated trade catalogue of heating furnaces and cooking ranges. Before the 1830s, gravity hot-air furnaces were produced according to the specifications of individual buildings. The first mass-market manufacturer in the United States was Richardson & Boynton, established in 1837 (and in business.....