Description

[002863] [Woodrow Wilson Commemorative Tissue]. Souvenir in Commemoration of the Visit of President Wilson to England December 1918. London: Burgess, 1918. First Edition. Folio. Unbound. Commemorative Tissue. Good. Printed, single sided tissue, approximately 365mm x 340mm in size.

Lightly foxed to edges, lightly creased, otherwise fairly clean.

Wilson arrived on Boxing Day and visited London, Carlisle and Manchester, before returning to London and then on to France.

[Sarah] 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