The Shilling Guides : Shell-Mex & BP Ltd : Derbyshire and Staffordshire : cover by Julian Trevelyan : 1964

            The Shell-Mex and BP "Shilling Guides" were published in the early 1960s as part of the company's wide ranging publishing endeavours that complemented their extensive and highly regarded publicity and advertising activities. The Shilling Guides were general introductions to the area along with a select gazetteer of principle places of interest and were effectively simple reprints of the relevant pages from the much larger Shell-Mex & BP Guide of Britain.

These slender volumes, designed to be purchased at only Shell or BP service stations, were each given a separate commissioned artwork cover, these being by a wide variety of artists and designers. This striking work by Julian Trevelyan uses highlights of The Potteries with distant hills to illustrate the Derbyshire and Staffordshire volume. It includes people linked to the rise of the pottery industry such as Josiah Wedgwood and James Brindley. Trevelyan (1910 - 1988) was a poet, artist and teacher. After wartime camouflage work he taught at Chelsea and the Royal College of Art, most notably in the field of etching, and is regarded as one of the leaders of the modern British print movement.

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Shell Guides

Shell-Mex & BP Shilling Guides

Derbyshire and Staffordshire

The Shilling Guides

book cover

1964

illustration

The Potteries

Josiah Wedgwood

Julian Trevelyan

Pottery

industry

mining

kilns

James Brindley « less

Sets appears in: • Shell-Mex & BP Shilling Guides • Shell advertising

Groups appears in: • Book Cover Club • Vintage Advertising more » • Vintage Illustration • Vintage Logos • PLANET EARTH VINTAGE ADVERTISING « less

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