c1948 -" OXFORD - So venerable, so serene, whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age "
A fine pictorial chromolithograph printed map on thick paper stock with tight margins featuring the University/City of Oxford and includes most colleges, Cathedral Church, Sheldonian Theatre, Radcliffe Camera, and the Bodleian Library to name a few. The Oxford University map is surrounded by the arms of the colleges, including the names and sketches of some of the most famous Oxford alumni.
Excellent condition and overall size approximately 59cm x 45cm.
British commercial illustrator and poster designer, Kerry Lee, founded the Pictorial Maps Ltd Company based Blandford Studios, London shortly after the end of World War II. During the late 1940s, Lee specialised in the design & publication of several highly detailed and decorative pictorial maps of historic British Cities, including London, Oxford, Stratford-upon-Avon, Cambridge, Liverpool & Leeds. There were mostly published in association with the Travel Association of Great Britain and Norther Ireland as part of a widespread marketing campaign to encourage foreign tourism.
The maps of Oxford and Cambridge follow an almost identical modern & design, with a central city plan in bird's eye profile filled with wonderful vignettes & humorous illustrations and a decorative surrounding border.