£15 Islands of Northern Britain Alfred Taylor
1936
Ref: 5810.8
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30x18 cm
ESSO PICTORIAL PLAN OF THE PRINCIPAL ISLANDS OF NORTHERN BRITAIN
The OUTER HEBRIDES and ISLE of SKYE
The SHETLAND ISLES
The ORKNEY ISLES
The INNER HEBRIDES and ISLE of ARRAN
A.E.TAYLOR
Colour printed map drawn by Alfred Edward Taylor (1887-1959) and published in Pictorial Britain and Ireland...Designed by Alfred Taylor Described by S.P.B.Mais...H.K. McCann Company Limited, for Anglo-American Oil Company Ltd., London 1936.
Petre Mais writes in his foreword to the work;
"I have seldom, if ever, seen a happier blending of the artist and wit in a cartographer...[the maps] are jolly, they are informative, they are original, and they have a magic enticing quality about them... "
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