Hobby Combined Sideboard and Chest of Drawers Cassell & Company

Antique Chromolithograph for "Work Magazine" Supplement to Part 189

Published by Cassell and Company LTD., London, Paris, New York and Melbourne c.1895

John Cassell (1817 – 1865) was a British Publisher printer, writer and editor, who founded the firm Cassell & Co. famous for its educational books and periodicals, and which pioneered the  serial publication of novels. He was also a well-known tea and coffee merchant and a general business entrepreneur. A devout Christian he lobbied for the Temperance Movement publishing The Teetotal Times in 1846.  He was a social reformer who recognized the importance of education in improving the life of the working classes, and whose many publications, both magazines and books, brought learning and culture to the masses.

Condition = Excellent ; 2 x fold as issued

Size of image = 43 x 27cm (17.2 x 10.8 inch)