Lot 389
62 Years Old Vintage Guinness Double Sided Print Napoleon & Hanky Panky
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Description
1961 My Goodness! My Gilbert and Sullivan! - Guinness Promotional booklet.
Approx. Size 9" x 6” (22.86 x 15.24 cm) (228.6 x 152.4 mm).
Illustrations by Antony Groves- Raines.
Verses by Stanley Penn.
Designed by S H Benson Ltd for Guinness.
Publisher: Guinness, Dublin.
A humorous parody of this great Opera Production. Drawing’s prose and poems.
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 & chemists to Promote the benefits of the company’s stout.
The booklets were produced to a very high standard of illustration, printing and publishing from 1933-1939, then 1950-1966, after which the Guinness Book of Records continued the tradition.
Every publication from 1933 to 1966 was a high-quality booklet with rhymes, text and cartoons created by some of the top illustrators and writers of the time.
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