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'Peter Jackson- Cigar Merchant' by Gilbert Frankau

Print
1920 (printed)
Artist/Maker
Hutchinson & Co. (publishers)
Place of origin
Britain (printed)

Book jacket for 'Peter Jackson- Cigar Merchant'. The cover is white with red and black text and depicts a man in khaki embracing a woman in a pink dress. There is a diagonal stripe of a moonlit sky and a tree lined shore across the cover with a line at the top reading 'One of the best-selling novels since the War', and 'A Romance of Married Life'. There is a review at the foot of the cover by the Times Literary Supplement reading 'Unique among war novels...a novel to possess'. The back cover is white with red and black writing depicting other titles in the Hutchinson Shilling Library series.

Object details

Categories
Books
Prints
Object type
Print
Title'Peter Jackson- Cigar Merchant' by Gilbert Frankau (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Printed book jacket
Paper
Printing
Brief description
Book jacket for 'Peter Jackson- Cigar Merchant' by Gilbert Frankau, published in the Hutchinson Shilling Novel series. Great Britain, 1920.
Physical description
Book jacket for 'Peter Jackson- Cigar Merchant'. The cover is white with red and black text and depicts a man in khaki embracing a woman in a pink dress. There is a diagonal stripe of a moonlit sky and a tree lined shore across the cover with a line at the top reading 'One of the best-selling novels since the War', and 'A Romance of Married Life'. There is a review at the foot of the cover by the Times Literary Supplement reading 'Unique among war novels...a novel to possess'. The back cover is white with red and black writing depicting other titles in the Hutchinson Shilling Library series.
Dimensions
  • Height: 289mm
  • Width: 187mm
Dimensions measured 02/07/2013
Subjects depicted
War
Couples
Married Couples
Moonlight
Lakes
Merchants
Kissing
Romantic
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.1548-1987

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Record createdJuly 1, 2013
Record URL
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