The cover of the August 1937 edition of Art & Industry magazine, prreviously Commercial Art, and with the then standard cover design. This copy is of interest in that it bears a rather fine poster stamp on the front cover. This shows it was purchased in the Brussels/Bruxelles/Brussel branch of W H S Smith no less, when they had an English Bookshop on the Boulevard Adolphe Max/Adolphe Maxlaan and that contained an English Tea Rooms no less. It had opened in 1920. Quite what happened to all that in 1939/40 I wonder but oddly, not only does the building still stand, recognisable, but it is the city's branch of Waterstones, the british bookshop chain.
The back cover, with an advert for printing company Herbert Reiach of London, also has a poster stamp and one of equal interest. It is in French and is advertising the London & North Eastern Railway's night ferry services from Anvers/Antwerp to Harwich with onward connections to Scotland. It shows not only the LNER's agency in Antwerp/Anvers, Westcott & Co, one the Quai D'Herbouville, but also their address in Brussels/Bruxelles/Brussel at 41 Boulevard Adolphe Max where they also acted for the London Midland & Scottish Railway.
