Macdonald Gill’s rare poster of the bus routes in the county of Surrey

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You've Only Got to Choose Your Bus.

GILL, Macdonald
London,
Electric Railway House, Broadway, Westminster, Waterlow & Sons,
[1920].
Chromolithograph map, dissected and mounted on linen.
1010 by 1260mm (39.75 by 49.5 inches).
12701

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Large comic pictorial map illustrating the bus routes in the area between Epsom and Horley, north to south, and Godstone to Effingham, east to west.

Illustrated in the same medieval modernist manner as Gill's other iconic map of the period, the Wonderground map of London, although understandably not as densely packed with the same volume of detail given its more pastoral environment. This bus map utilises a similar palette of bold colour of green, red, and yello...

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