CWB: amongst my dust jacket collection are several stylish designs for 1930s mystery novels that are signed with just these initials. Cecil W Bacon (1905-1992) was an illustrator who was born in Hastings, and attended Hastings School of Art in the early 1920s. After working for an advertising agency, he set up on his own in 1929 (just as the Wall Street Crash happened) but he went on to have a successful career, producing a number of designs for London Transport in the 1930s, and during World War II producing propaganda posters for the Ministry of Information. He worked regularly for the Radio Times, for the Post Office Savings Bank and British Railways (the @ltmuseum has a collection of his designs). He was also a master of scraper board and wrote a book on the subject; and himself was the subject of a retrospective at @hastings_museum in 1984. I feel fortunate to have five of his early covers, none of which are (yet) listed on his Wikipedia page. #cwb #cecilwbacon #illustration #design #bookstagram #book #1930sdesign #artdeco #coverart #dustjacket #bookcover #bookcollector #bookcollecting (at Brighton and Hove) https://www.instagram.com/p/CJ0rwybF-qH/?igshid=o9jzbs86a3cc
