Guinness “Album Victorianum” publicity booklet, 1951 - Scenes from the Great Exhibition 1851 illustrated by Eric Fraser

            One of the series of annual publicity booklets that were issued by the Dublin and London brewing company of Guinness and issued to people such as doctors so as to sell the benefits of the company’s stout. The booklets were produced to a very high standard of illustration, printing and publishing and this, using the centenary of the 1851 Great Exhibition as its genesis, is no different. The cover is by Ronald Ferns and the internal pages include works by Eric Fraser and Eric Hobbs. The booklet was designed by Guinness’s long-standing advertising agency, S H Benson Ltd, who were behind much of the striking and memorable Guinness advertising of the day. It is printed on high quality Evensyde paper from John Dickinson & Co Ltd., and printed by John Waddington Ltd., of Leeds, who were acknowledged colour printers as well as games manufacturers.

This is the double page spread of the 1851 Great Exhibition imagined by the inimitable Eric Fraser, an important and popular artist and illustrator whose work spanned much of the 20th century.

Taken on: March 12, 2020

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