Progress (Quarterly Magazine of Lever Brothers, Volumes 26 and 27, April 1926 to October 1927, 8 issues)

Eight consecutive issues of Progress, the quarterly magazine of Lever Brothers published for the Company, its shareholders, customers and staff, from April 1926 to October 1927, bound into a single volume.  248pp 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 Earliest Photographs of the Lever Brothers; Lever’s and Social Service; The Philosophy of Thomas Dreir;  Good Housekeeping Institute’s Reports of Lever’s Products; Twelve Decades of Grocery; A Trip Across Sumatra; Glycerine – Servant of Industry and Healing; Grocery in the 1870s and Today; Through British and French West Africa; Shanghai Under the Nationalists; Concerning the Old and New of Soap-making; The Promise of Poland, etc etc.