Things That Happen
[Burton on Trent], [Worthington Breweries], 1926. Grave, Charles & Ors. Things That Happen: published in the interests of good health & good cheer. [FIRST EDITION] [Worthington Breweries]: [Burton on Trent], 1926. 4to (270x185mm) illust stiff wrappers, stapled 31,[1]pp. VG-/-
Second-hand softcover
GRAVE, Charles [Chas (1886 - 1944)] & Others¹
Things that Happen: cartooned by Charles Grave & other well-known artists - published in the interests of good health & good cheer.
[Burton on Trent] : [Worthington Breweries], 1926. First Edition. Issued gratis.
Quarto (270x185mm) publisher's original two colour illustrated and printed stiff tan card wrappers, stapled, [2]-31,[1]pp. Twenty seven monochrome full page illustrations/cartoons advertising Worthington's Beer. Wrappers lightly soiled; staples rusted, wrappers loose, small blemish to pps. 16-17 not affecting the illustration.
¶ Worthington is an historic British brand of beer and save for Whitbreads, the oldest continuously brewed British beer brand extant today. The Worthington Brewery was established in Burton on Trent in 1744 and in the nineteenth century became famous for its White Shield bottle conditioned India Pale Ale. For much of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Worthington's was one of only three beers distributed nationally in bottle (the others being Bass and Guinness) and one of the very few beers to be bottle conditioned.
Issued just before the merger of the Worthington and Bass Breweries in the late 1920s, Things that Happen, is a delightful collection of humorous advertisements highlighting the every-day occasions one should have a Worthington. Grave and Shaw, the two main contributors, were both self taught cartoonists who excelled at drawing the working classes. In later years Grave was a relief artist for Punch.
Scarce. An excellent and rather amusing example of British interwar breweriana.
§ OCLC records no holdings this edition; cf, three holdings of the 1977 facsimile published by Bass Ltd, Oxford Brookes; Cork, Anheuser-Buesch.
§ Not in Noling.
¹ Fourteen illustrations signed "Chas Grave"; five unsigned; five signed by "Ern Shaw" (1897 - 1986); two signed by "F C Boyle"; one signed "J Bailey".
Item #11439
Price: $250.00 AUD