Concerning book jackets : Illustration - Number II, Volume IV, New Series. Issued by André, Sleigh & Anglo Ltd., London, c1918
A page from the fine trade journal "Illustration" issued by the printers and engravers André, Sleigh and Anglo in c1918 and just before they were 'merged' with Sun Engraving of Watford. The journal was used to highlight the company's expertise and technological prowess and so it also states the paper and inks used; in this case those by John Dickinson's of King's Langley for the paper and Winstone's of London for the inks.
For this short article on the book jacket they've chosen to illustrate it with a work that isn't credited here but that is by Macdonald "Max" Gill - an aritst and designer who was associated with Sun Engraving and the printer businessman behind the company Edward Hunter. The artwork is very much indicative of two of Max Gill's specialities that were much in demand at the time - pictorial maps and lettering. By 1918 Max had not long finished the first of his celebrated pictorial maps for London Underground (the "Wonderground" map as it became known) and he was busy undertaking the commission to design the lettering to be used on all British military gravestones as part of his work for the Imperial (now Commonwelath) War Graves Commission.
Concerning book jackets : Illustration - Number II, Volume IV, New Series. Issued by André, Sleigh & Anglo Ltd., London, c1918
A page from the fine trade journal "Illustration" issued by the printers and engravers André, Sleigh and Anglo in c1918 and just before they were 'merged' with Sun Engraving of Watford. The journal was used to highlight the company's expertise and technological prowess and so it also states the paper and inks used; in this case those by John Dickinson's of King's Langley for the paper and Winstone's of London for the inks.
For this short article on the book jacket they've chosen to illustrate it with a work that isn't credited here but that is by Macdonald "Max" Gill - an aritst and designer who was associated with Sun Engraving and the printer businessman behind the company Edward Hunter. The artwork is very much indicative of two of Max Gill's specialities that were much in demand at the time - pictorial maps and lettering. By 1918 Max had not long finished the first of his celebrated pictorial maps for London Underground (the "Wonderground" map as it became known) and he was busy undertaking the commission to design the lettering to be used on all British military gravestones as part of his work for the Imperial (now Commonwelath) War Graves Commission.