English Journey by J.D.Angerson

In the eighty-five years since J. B. Priestley made his English journey, England has changed on a mammoth scale. Priestley was walking through a country that still depended on agriculture and heavy industry; a country ravaged by poverty but yet to be ravaged by the Luftwaffe and the post-war planners. And yet, for all the differences between 1934 and 2018 England, there’s a great similarity between J. B. Priestley and photographer John Angerson – they both set out to report England as it is and was, in those years.

From PHmusuem photobook of the year.
”In English Journey, John Angerson follows the route J.B. Priestley took on his 1930s trip from Southampton in the south to Newcastle in the north. Priestley's account highlighted the severe social and economic problems evident in the country and helped inspire George Orwell's Road to Wigan Pier. On his contemporary journey, Angerson imagines Priestley is by his side as he travels. With Angerson as his guide, we see an outsourced, shell of a nation. It's a sober book where the hard facts of the captions layer into formal photographs in a superbly designed book that captures the cold, hard facts of a country past its sell-by-date”.

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Limited edition - each cover variant has only 10 copies. The cover colour option is based on availability in stock.

ISBN: 978-1-5272-3023-1
60 colour Photographs.
Hardback 118pp 208mm x 154mm
Printed Litho at Team Impression, Leeds, England.
Cover: Black foil on Ratchford Colorado Cloth.
Endpapers: 120gsm Sirio Ultra Black.
Book: 120gsm FreeLife Vellum White.
Photographs: 170gsm Gallerie Art Gloss.
Complete with a route map of the English Journey.
Printed black litho onto 135gsm colorplan real grey.
Unsigned.