POSTER TO POSTER RAILWAY JOURNEYS IN ART VOLUME 3: THE MIDLANDS AND WALES
Written by Richard Furness
Published by Jdf & Associates Ltd
in 2011
ISBN: 9780956209245
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POSTER TO POSTER RAILWAY JOURNEYS IN ART VOLUME 3: THE MIDLANDS AND WALES
Written by Richard Furness.
Stock no. 1830901
1st.
2011.
Hardback.
Large format.
Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.
A mixture of documentary reference, geographic study, historical view and artists review using the central theme of posters. View the wonderful poster images issued bye the Pre-grouping companies, through the era of the 'Big Four', then the British Railway period and into the age of Intercity and Contemporary posters. Large oblong format. Brown cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Colour railway poster art throughout. xii and 208 pages. ISBN: 9780956209245. Minor knock to top of spine nad lower board edges. Text block slightly grubby. Contents clean. Pixtorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed to rear panel, rear panel depicts Tintern Abbey.
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Front cover
Contents
- Poster to Poster
- Map of England and Wales Region by Alan Young
- Contents
- Maps Indicating Poster Locations
- Abbreviations
- List of Posters and Prints
- Foreword by Dr Pete Waterman OBE
- Acknowledgements
- INTRODUCTION
- Opening Remarks
- Railway Developments in the Region
- The GWR and LMS are Formed
- The BR Era of Regional Advertising
- The Layout of this Volume
- CHAPTER 1 From Three Spires to the High Peak
- The Journey Starts in South Staffs
- The City of Three Spires
- Stafford and the Potteries
- North into Derbyshire
- Arrival in the High Peak
- CHAPTER 2 The Eastern Shires of England
- The Derbyshire Dales
- South Derbyshire and into Derby
- Robin Hood Country
- Leicestershire Beckons
- The City of Peterborough
- Rural Northamptonshire
- CHAPTER 3 Dreaming Spires and Fine Words
- Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire
- Into Oxfordshire
- The City of Dreaming Spires
- Fine Posters for Stratford-upon-Avon
- A Visit to a Wonderful Castle
- An Elegant Midlands Spa
- History and Industry
- CHAPTER 4 Into the Land of the Three Choirs
- Time to go 'Home' to Shropshire
- South into Worcestershire
- Worcester and the Malverns
- Eastern Worcestershire
- The Beautiful Cotswolds
- Regency Cheltenham and Gloucester Cathedral
- The Enchanting Landscape
- CHAPTER 5 Croeso I Gymru - Welcome to Wales
- Monmouthsire
- Into the Capital of Wales
- Holidays in Glamorgan
- Contrasting West Wales
- Glorious Pembrokeshire
- CHAPTER 6 Holidays in Mid-Wales
- At the South End of Cardigan Bay
- Aberystwyth
- Visiting the Little Trains
- Into Central Wales
- More Little Railways
- Along the Cambrian Coast
- CHAPTER 7 Influences of Posters on the Area's Tourism
- Opening Comments
- Early Examples of Regional Marketing
- Marketing by the "Big Four"
- Development of Railway Services
- Seaside Marketing
- Other Places Influenced by Railway Marketing
- The Role of the Poster in Modern Railway Advertising by Gerwyn Jones (GRP)
- Modern Railway Preservation Advertising using Art