Adventures of the Blackgang
Thalassophilia, Nautical History, Culture, and Art
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Channel Islands travel brochure
The Channel Islands (French: Îles Anglo-Normandes or Îles de la Manche) are an archipelago of British Crown Dependencies in the English Channel, off the French coast of Normandy. They include two separate bailiwicks: the Bailiwick of Guernsey and the Bailiwick of Jersey.
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East Coasting - London & North Eastern railway booklet by Dell Leigh - frontispiece by Edward Bawden - 1930 The London & North Eastern Railway had very high standards for publicity - commissioning some of the best graphic designers and artists of the day.
This booklet is, even by their standards, unique - a small booklet whose plain but stylish cover hides some marvellous work by Edward Bawden and the whole set up and printed by the wonderful Curwen Press. The frontispiece gives an indication of the inventive and playful illustrations to be found - quite how the thought of being carried off by a mermaid or giant lobster enticed people to England’s east coast I don’t know!
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Whitley Bay guide 1927 - cover by Fred Taylor
Northumbria’s happy holiday centre by the sea says the 1927 guide to this north-east England coastal town. Issued by the Whitley & Monkseaton Urban District Council the guide is notable for the cover by prolific railway poster artist Fred Taylor.
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“See this Scotland First” - Macbraynes travel brochure front cover, 1935
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Another of the fine brochure covers produced by MacBraynes Ferries in the 1930s. It covers the ferries, road services and connecting railways. -
Great Western Railway - Holiday Haunts 1933 - cover by Bruce Angrave
Original (3241 x 4998)
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Brighton by Hamilton Fyfe - the official handbook of the Corporation of Brighton - cover by Aubrey Hammond, 1938
Original (3756 x 4936)
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Travel brochure “Holidays on the Rhine,” circa 1930. Published by the Rheinischer Verkehrsverband - Bad Godesberg on the Rhine. Signed “Market - Koblenz,” printed by “L. Schwann - Düsseldorf.”
“Shell Stadtkarte Nr. 2 - Hamburg,” Road map for Hamburg, circa 1937
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Travel brochure “The Rhine Steamers,” circa 1930
Travel brochure “Germany- The Rhine,” circa 1935. Signed “Schaefer.” Published by the Reichsbahnzentrale für den Deutschen Reiseverkher, Berlin
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Travel book “Die Seebäder Italiens,” 1934
Designed by “Stabilimento Arti Grafiche Bertarelli - Milano.”
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Bay of Naples 1935
Travel brochure for the Bay of Naples, circa 1935. Nazionale Industrie Turistische (ENIT - Italian State Tourist Department). Signed “Novissima Roma.”
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