PITMAN'S SHORTHAND & TYPEWRITING YEAR BOOK & DIARY for 1925

Orange cloth with black lettering and ills. to sp. and boards, rounded outer corners.viii (adverts, mostly ill.) + f/piece (Lord Riddell photo portrait) + 220 (adverts from 211) + (4 blank for addresses) + 1925 diary with week per page) + 'Cash Summary' of 7 pp. + ix-xv (adverts mostly ills inc. endpapers, paginated as continuation of previous unpaginated section). several sm. text figs. Main interest of this is the large number of illustrated adverts for variety of office-work related products such as typewriters (and ribbons), fountain pens, a Gestetner Duplicator, a Roneo duplicator, etc. providing a glimpse into office working life in the 1920s, as well as history of advertising.