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Description: | Huntley & Palmers produced their first book tin, 'Library', in 1900. This was followed in 1901 with this tin 'Literature'. The choice of books reflects the contemporary sense of 'great books' - a selection which, on the whole, would be shared today. Samuel Smiles's book 'Self Help'(1859) though, with its belief that hard work is the foundation of creativity and success, has dropped out of popular consciousness. The 'History of England' volume is probably intended to represent the multi-volume work of Thomas Macauley published in 1880.The book tins were one of the most popular tins with customers and were produced, in ten different variations, until 1924. During this time over 650,000 book tins were produced. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Publisher: | Huntley & Palmers | Rights holder: | Reading Borough Council (Reading Museum Service) | Subjects: | Robert Burns Samuel Smiles John Bunyan Thomas Macauley book Daniel Defoe decorative art William Shakespeare Jonathan Swift | Temporal: | start=1901-01-01; end=1901-12-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | Huntley, Boorne & Stevens | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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