Thomas Catling — The Press Album

London , John Murray, 1909. First edition. Cloth. A decorative and illustrated First Edition of this journalistic compendium. First Edition. With seventeen black and white plates and colour frontis, and thirty-four pages of advertisements. Collated complete. With an "Express Bank" watermark on the frontis tissue guard, depicting a steam train. A collection of poetry, stories and articles by authors including Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Jerome K. Jerome, published in aid of the Journalists' Orphan Fund. Bound in cloth, with stamped lettering and pictorial decoration. There is only slight wear to the extremities, with just slight bumping, fading to the spine, and marks to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are bright and clean, with some very light background spotting on the first and last couple of pages and the occasional spot throughout. There is a small ink inscription on the front pastedown Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .