Progress (Quarterly Magazine of Lever Brothers, Volumes 30 and 31, January 1930 to Autumn 1931, 8 issues)

Eight consecutive issues of Progress, the quarterly magazine of Lever Brothers published for the Company, its shareholders, customers and staff, from January 1930 to Autumn 1931 bound into a single volume.  288pp 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 is rippled and marked, gently rubbed and rounded at corners and spine ends, a few minor indentations.  Endpapers slightly toned and lifted, with tiny corner crease on front free endpaper, title page creased, 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 Soap Throughout the Centuries; The History of the House of Hazlehurst; The Mammoth Machines of Purfleet; On the Subject of Baths and Bathing; The Merger with Margarine Uniin; Soap and the LMS; Five Minutes in a Balloon; Unilever House Sculptures; The Care of a Baby’s Skin; A Dissertation on Deception; When Soap Was Made at Home; The Cakes that Mother Made; and many, many more.