Page size 14 x 22, usually dated 1947 but my copy apparently received December 1946. Cecil Keeling is particularly associated with designing for the BBC, either side of war service in the Middle east. Pictures from Persia reproduces coloured drawings he undertook while on active service in Qum, Baghdad and Tehran in thirty lithographs printed by Cowell's of Ipswich. One poignant theme is the the indigenous citizen being ordered around by the Figure of Authority. The artist was born in 1912 and died in 1976.

 

BOOK JACKET FOR THE BBC YEARBOOK 1952