EXTRACTS: illustrators issue 3 © 2013 The Book Palace (96 PAGES in Full edition)

37 Courtesy of the National Railway Museum / Science & Society Picture Library ABOVE: Matania’s oil painting of Blackpool as it appeared in a 1937 poster for the London, Midland and Scottish Railway. From the 1920s to the late 1940s there was a profusion of beautifully designed posters celebrating the delights of railway travel with many of the UK’s premier illustrators providing the artwork.