Daily Telegraph Picture Map of London Date of Publication_1911 or European Russia

or European Russia

Contemporary red half morocco over marbled boards

a complete set comprising:

faintly lettered at the foot of the spine ‘British Consulate Ponta Delgada’ (the capital of the Azores)

Daily Telegraph Picture Map of London Date of Publication_1911 or European RussiaThis pictorial map depicts various London types in the borders, and shows the Royal Festival Hall (built for the 1951 Festival of Britain) and the Mermaid Theatre at Puddle Dock, which opened in 1959. It seems likely that the map was first printed to coincide with the Festival, and this is a later issue, with the theatre added (it does not appear on all copies). An updated picture map by Simon Stern was issued by the Telegraph c. 1970. A price of 2 6