1895 Colgate & Co. Booklet ~ Ninety Tons of Rose Leaves

This is an original antique booklet published by Colgate & Co. in 1895. With lovely tinted illustrations throughout, the booklet tells the story of a group of friends on a sea voyage who come across a young bicyclist who tells them how a "New York firm" gathers ninety tons of rose leaves to perfume their soaps.

According to the back of the booklet:

This little pamphlet is not a manual of perfumery. Much less is it a catalogue.

It goes on to say, in part:

The Colgate Toilet Soaps alone number over a hundred different styles, carefully graded and adapted to suit all tastes and purses... The retail prices, in short, range from five cents to one dollar a cake... Besides the employment of an ever increasing factory force, the manufacture of such goods necessitates the assistance of a laboratory staff...

Title: Ninety Tons of Rose Leaves and Other Sketches

Size: 5" x 7"

Length: 32 pages (including front & back cover)

Condition: Some light wear to front and back cover (with previous owner's signature on cover). Interior pages are clean and in very good condition.