Green Line Pair Poster, Services from Hyde Park Corner Merionethshire Venice was just passing the

Venice was just passing the peak of her military and commercial prime (the Ottoman Empire recaptured the Morea in 1718)

with advertisements for Cheffins’ lithographic printing office and other maps by the same publisher on the pastedown and panel facing the pastedown

ruled by the Genoese in the 17th century and included in the Italian volume of Blaeu’s atlas

41 escalators etc) on the covers

The map was engraved by Jodocus Hondius or Pieter van den Keere for the 'Caert thresoor'

Green Line Pair Poster, Services from Hyde Park Corner Merionethshire Venice was just passing theBy Green Line from Hyde Park Corner This pair poster was issued in April 1947 for the start of the first summer of the fully re instated coach network after the Second World War in a very limited run (50) for display at stops in and around Hyde Park Corner. Green Line was set up by the the LGOC in 1930 to run services between central London and destinations in the Home Counties. The poster features the pre war style 'bullseye' logo, a map of Hyde Park