ART FOR ALL: LONDON TRANSPORT POSTERS 1908-1949

James Laver [introduction]

[Posters] James Laver [introduction]: ART FOR ALL: LONDON TRANSPORT POSTERS 1908-1949. London: Art & Technics, 1949. First edition. A very good or better hardcover book in full cloth in a very good or better dust jacket: jacket spine sun-faded and lightly soiled. Out-of-print and quite uncommon.

7.25 x 9.5 hardcover book with 40 pages and 68 plates (14 in color). Text vignettes and decorations by McDonald Gill, Eric Ravilious, Edward Bawden, Clare Leighton, Althea Willoughby, and Feliks Topolski.

Plates by E. McKnight Kauffer, Austin Cooper, Graham Sutherland, Edward Bawden, John Farleigh, Gregory Brown, Clive Gardiner, H. S. Williamson, Clifford and Rosemary Ellis, John Mansbridge, Edward Bawden, Edward Wadsworth, Albert Rutherston, Barnett Freedman, James Fitton, Oleg Zinger, Dora Batty, Betty Swanwick, Dame Laura Knight, Clare Leighton, A. R. Thomson, J. Hassall, Fred Taylor, Spencer Pryse, Sir Frank Brangwyn, Tony Sarg, Charles Pears, Charles Sims, E. A. Cox, Charles Paine, Rex Whistler, Fred Pegram, Fred Taylor, C. R. W. Nevinson, Frank Newbould, Ethelbert White, Alfred Leete, Rex Whistler, John Mansbridge, Jacob Epstein, Stanislaus Brien, Gregory Brown, J. McIntosh Patrick, Margaret Barnard, Walter Spradbery, Shafig Shawki, R. B. Talbot Kelly, Mona Moore, and Anthony Gilbert.

Foreword by the Right Hon Lord Latham - Chairman, London Transport Executive, and with contributions from James Laver, Harold F. Hutchison and Thomas E. Griffits.

Delightful collection of posters, originally prepared for London Transport publicity, which capture images from all over London and the surrounding area.an evocative collection which brings to life art of the first half of the twentieth century.

Spreads from this volume can be viewed here.

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