1891 luxury book P&O Pencillings Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation

Description

A 1891 very luxury hardcover book “P&O pencillings“.In 1891 P&O commissioned artist William 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.
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.
Language: English
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