A Post Office advertising poster signed by the artist

A large and colourful map of the British Isles, oreientated with north to the right, decorated in 'Max' Gill's unmistakable style. The title is on a scroll and the corners are filled with a compass rose, sun, wind-head and moon. In the seas are five steamers. On the land are a multitude of radio masts. This poster, designed to complement the 'Mail Steamship Routes', was not published until 1939, the year after the signature's date. This was a personal copy belonging to the artist prior to publication. Leslie MacDonald Gill (1884-1947), younger brother of Eric Gill, specialised in graphic design in the Arts and Crafts style. His most important commission was from the Imperial War Graves Commission, designing the script used on Commission headstones and war memorials, including the 'Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme'. He produced a number of maps, two of which appeared in the British Museum exhibition 'Magnificent Maps in 2010: 'The Wonderground Map of London' (1914) & 'Tea Revives the World' (1940).