The British Isles tourist leaflet : the East Midlands and The Peak District
An interesting series of tourist leaflets for locations and regions of the British Isles and possibly issued under the guidance of the Travel & Industrial Development Association of Great Britain and Ireland although several in the series are shown as being issued by more local organisations. They are undated but the contents and style appear to place them in the 1930s and indeed that accords with a pre- and post-WW2 period when the UK's overseas travel organisations issued many photogravure black and white publicity items - cheaper than colour and to an extent showcasing the possiblities of quality of reproduction using this process. These leaflets, many of which are printed by the Curwen Press in London with others by the Withy Grove Press of Manchester, make interesting use of quite modern typefaces to add to the ephemeral interest. No designers are credited and they feelwith their mostly photographic contentto have been designed and set out to make the best possible use of the typographer.
This leaflet for the East Midlands and the adjacent Peak District and includes the counties of Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire and over towards the North Sea Coast and the cathedral cities of Peterborough and Boston. The text covers areas such as Dovedale and the Peaks as wells as towns and cities including Matlock, Lincoln, Leicester, Nottingham, Boston and Skegness. It makes much of the links to 'early' American 'settlement' found in ths area. Printed at the Curwen Press in Plaistow this was issued by the Association and notes the various offices of travel agents, shipping companies and railway offices in the US and Canada.
The British Isles tourist leaflet : the East Midlands and The Peak District
An interesting series of tourist leaflets for locations and regions of the British Isles and possibly issued under the guidance of the Travel & Industrial Development Association of Great Britain and Ireland although several in the series are shown as being issued by more local organisations. They are undated but the contents and style appear to place them in the 1930s and indeed that accords with a pre- and post-WW2 period when the UK's overseas travel organisations issued many photogravure black and white publicity items - cheaper than colour and to an extent showcasing the possiblities of quality of reproduction using this process. These leaflets, many of which are printed by the Curwen Press in London with others by the Withy Grove Press of Manchester, make interesting use of quite modern typefaces to add to the ephemeral interest. No designers are credited and they feelwith their mostly photographic contentto have been designed and set out to make the best possible use of the typographer.
This leaflet for the East Midlands and the adjacent Peak District and includes the counties of Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire and over towards the North Sea Coast and the cathedral cities of Peterborough and Boston. The text covers areas such as Dovedale and the Peaks as wells as towns and cities including Matlock, Lincoln, Leicester, Nottingham, Boston and Skegness. It makes much of the links to 'early' American 'settlement' found in ths area. Printed at the Curwen Press in Plaistow this was issued by the Association and notes the various offices of travel agents, shipping companies and railway offices in the US and Canada.