P&O 1891 origineel luxe boek stoomschip Pencillings zeldzaam

Aangeboden een zeer zeldzame uitgave van P&O uit 1891.

Whitelock Lloyd to produce pen and ink drawings of life on board a P&O liner to be sold to passengers as a keepsake of their voyage. The sketches were drawn on board the steamship 'Himalaya' as it travelled from Southampton to India via the Suez Canal and are brilliantly evocative of life aboard the liners of the time. The book contains 50 gilt pages and 23 tipped-in drawings. This book was professionally restored.There are many modern reprints of this book around, but this one is originally published in 1891.

Name: P&O pencillings
Published by: Day & Son, London
Lithographed by: Emrik & Binger, London
Written by: W.W. Lloyd
Type: harcover book, size 38 x 27 cm (14.96” x 10.63”)
Number of pages: 50 gilt pages, 23 tipped-in drawings
Year published: 1891
Condition: very good > the book was professionally restored for US$ 350. I will included the restoration report (in Dutch).
Language: English