First Map of the Soviet Gulags British Empire Exhibition The Central London Railway produced

The Central London Railway produced a considerable quantity of advertising material in the Edwardian period

54 x 60 cm

the City & South London Railway and the Great Northern & City Railway (the first two purchased by the UERL and the latter by the Metropolitan Railway

engraved by Juvenal Boetta

Nineteenth century book label: Bishopric of Cornwall

First Map of the Soviet Gulags British Empire Exhibition The Central London Railway producedThis important map of the Gulag, the Soviet system of forced labour camps, is seemingly the earliest published example of what was to become one of the most widely circulated pieces of anti Communist literature. It was published in a work titled, with heavy irony, Sprawiedliwosc Sowiecka (Soviet Justice), which was also published as La Justice Sovietique and Giustizia Sovietica. There was no English edition, but English may have been chosen as a