LT Engraved Brasses Church Stella Marsden

Original vintage set of two posters - Engraved Brasses - designed by the artist Stella Marsden (b.1921) for London Transport promoting the rich ecclesiastical heritage and medieval church monuments found throughout the capital's regions, the first poster featuring medieval figures depicted with their hands held in prayer with the text detailing the "quieter glories of our churches and cathedrals" highlighting notable monuments to those lying in rest including Sir John at Stoke D’Abernon and Lady Tiptoft at Enfield, joining up to the images on the second poster through the Gothic architectural composition of a towering cathedral canopy and heraldic shields and coat-of-arms in the background with silhouettes of kneeling angels below an image of a medieval lady in a flowing dress next to a comprehensive travel directory for regional historic churches that contain good brasses in Amersham St Mary Buckinghamshire, Chigwell St Mary Essex, Lingfield St Peter & St Paul Surrey, St. Alban's Cathedral Hertfordshire, St. Olave Hart Street London, Stoke D'Abernon St Mary Surrey and Stoke Poges St Giles Buckinghamshire, complete with the specific travel routes via Green Line coaches, local buses and London Underground, the availability of the Visitors' London, How To Get There and Country Walks guidebooks with the London Transport logo at the bottom of each poster. Printed by McCorquodale & Co., Ltd, London. Good condition, folds, creasing, tears, pinholes, staining, tape on corners.