Description

[002841] [Our Glorious Dead]. Souvenir in Commemoration of ‘Our Glorious Dead’ Who Gave Their Lives for Us. Gone from Us But Not Forgotten. London: S. Burgess, First Edition. Folio. Unbound. Commemorative Tissue. Good. Printed single sided tissue, approximately 345mm x 355mm in size, n.d. probably 1920’s.

Slightly creased, a few spots of foxing to lower left hand corner and margins, otherwise fairly clean and bright.

Central image of a parade passing the Cenotaph with rose and leaf border. S.[arah] Burgess specialised in the printing of these commemorative tissues, generally the decorative borders were printed in Japan, with the overprinting which was “commonly primitive .. and display a … disregard for niceties of typography and spelling” (Rickards, page 221) done locally