Original LNER poster 'The Good Companions' by Austin Cooper from 1931, showing South East England's train connections.

J.B. Priestley's England

Austin Cooper
£400.00

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  • Condition: B (folds, slight edge nicks)
  • Date: 1931
  • Designer: Austin Cooper (1890 - 1964)
  • Printer: Johnson & Co
  • Publisher: London and North Eastern Railway
  • Size: DR (630 x 1010)

This very unusual railway poster was published in autumn 1930 to capitalize on the huge success of JB Priestley’s novel The Good Companions (1929), the story of a travelling concert party. According to the LNER staff magazine, the poster shows ‘the various places the Good Companions visited’. A shrewd example of cross-marketing designed by the legendary Austin Cooper.