Eight consecutive issues of Progress, the quarterly magazine of Lever Brothers published for the Company, its shareholders, customers and staff, from April 1928 to October 1929, bound into a single volume. 244pp of magazine, with additional inserts bound in. Colour magazine covers, black and white illustrations throughout each issue. Grey cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering and decorations front and spine. Endpapers decorated with the Lever Brothers logo. Additional title page and index. 8vo. Cloth just a little rubbed on corners, Some faint and occasional spotting internally else neat, clean, bright and tight throughout.
A treasure of information on Lever Brothers in the 1920s, with articles and essays likely to engage the Lever Brothers community, setting out not just the company's performance but its values and messages as well. Principal articles in these particular issues include The Congo Today; Lever Hermanos Limitada, Buenos Aires; Taking 'Sunlight' to the Shan States; The Story of Moor Park; The Artist in West Africa; Leverhulme Pharmaceutical Scholars; The Story of Crosfields of Warrington; The King and Queen of Afghanistan Visit Port Sunlight; Origin of the Lady Leverhulme Collection; An Artist Looks at Port Sunlight; Three Generations Serve the Soap Trade; Shopkeepers of the East; and many, many more.
