Have a glass of Guinness. Rear cover of Album Victorianum, issued by A Guinness, 1951
For many years Guinness the brewers issued an annual publicity booklet that was commissioned through their advertising agency S H Benson, was themed and had very high standards of production and publicity. The 1951 theme was the centenary of the 1851 Great Exhibition and the booklet is in High Victorian style with work by artists such as Eric Fraser. The booklet was printed by the well regarded Waddington company in Leeds and is on Dickinson paper.
The rear cover has this, the ten familiar ‘smiling glass’ of Guinness in a rocking chair and reminds us that the stout was pushed as having medicinal qualities. In fact the booklets were issued to doctors! I well recall drawing many such smiles in the heads of many a pint of stout during my university years in Dublin!
Have a glass of Guinness. Rear cover of Album Victorianum, issued by A Guinness, 1951
For many years Guinness the brewers issued an annual publicity booklet that was commissioned through their advertising agency S H Benson, was themed and had very high standards of production and publicity. The 1951 theme was the centenary of the 1851 Great Exhibition and the booklet is in High Victorian style with work by artists such as Eric Fraser. The booklet was printed by the well regarded Waddington company in Leeds and is on Dickinson paper.
The rear cover has this, the ten familiar ‘smiling glass’ of Guinness in a rocking chair and reminds us that the stout was pushed as having medicinal qualities. In fact the booklets were issued to doctors! I well recall drawing many such smiles in the heads of many a pint of stout during my university years in Dublin!