1920 Picturesque London

Description

Colour Plates, First Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Very Scarce

In the publisher's original paper wraps. 

This copy is an undated first edition. Dated here using Jisc, from a copy held at Bishopsgate Institute. 

This volume is a charming pictorial survey of London, with landmarks, streets and riverside scenes reproduced in full colour with 24 tipped-in plates from art by Jessie Currie and E. E. Briscoe. Collated, complete. 

The Anglo-American Oil Company Limited was once the largest distributor of petroleum products in the British Isles, distinguished as the only firm of its time to manage export, shipping, refining, and distribution entirely under a single corporate control, without reliance on subsidiaries.

This volume follows a tradition of corporate books of the era, where oil, shipping, and insurance companies produced volumes that doubled as both marketing, publicity and objects of cultural prestige.