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Imperial Airways : Europe, Africa, India, China, Australia

Brochure
ca. 1938 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

1 folded sheet : colour illustrations, colour map ; 50 x 75 cm folded to 25 x 25 cm.
Unfolds to provide wall chart of Imperial Airways plane classes "Heracles and Hannibal", "Scylla", "Atalanta", "Scipio" with cutaway diagrams.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleImperial Airways : Europe, Africa, India, China, Australia (published title)
Materials and techniques
Printed brochure
Brief description
Imperial Airways : Europe, Africa, India, China, Australia. Imperial Airways Ltd., 1938?
Physical description
1 folded sheet : colour illustrations, colour map ; 50 x 75 cm folded to 25 x 25 cm.
Unfolds to provide wall chart of Imperial Airways plane classes "Heracles and Hannibal", "Scylla", "Atalanta", "Scipio" with cutaway diagrams.
Dimensions
  • Length: 250mm (sheet folded up - closed) (Note: Measured by BKC in book measuring box)
  • Width: 250mm (Sheet folded up - closed) (Note: Measured by BKC in book measuring box)
  • Depth: 2mm (Sheet folded up - closed) (Note: Measured by BKC in book measuring box)
Style
Production typeMass produced
Object history
Part of the Jobbing Printing Collection of examples of commercial printing and design including catalogues and books as well as a variety of ephemera such as magazine covers, promotional cards, loose sheets, book plates, book jackets, trade cards, advertisement proofs, wine labels, menu cards etc. Firms include Shell-Mex, Austin Reed, Guinness, Heals, Imperial Airways, Orient Line. Designers include McKnight Kauffer, El Lissitsky, Bawden, Bayer, Gill, Tschichold. Categories of material include architecture, broadcasting, costume, interior design, motor industry, food and drink.

In 1936 the National Art Library decided to lay the foundations of a "collection of commercial typography and to exhibit contemporary specimens from time to time so that the trend of typographic design, both in this country and abroad, could be appraised by students of industrial art". The Keeper of the Library, Philip James was largely instrumental in acquiring the material. The bulk of the collection consists of examples from the 1930s, especially 1936 - 1939, with a smattering of items from the 1940s.
The collection is further supplemented with material from the 1960s which the Library inherited from the Circulation Department of the Museum after its closure in 1978. As these two groups of material stand as historic collections in their own right, any further examples acquired by the Library have been catalogued individually and not added to this designated 'closed collection'.
Currently uncatalogued. A typescript list is available on request at the Main Counter; this list does not include the material inherited from the Circulation Department.
Other numbers
  • Jobbing Printing Box 6 - NAL Pressmark
  • 904461 - Horizon bib. number
Collection
Library number
38041800870164

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Record createdApril 10, 2016
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