MICHAEL ROULSTONE
The Pub History Society
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MRP exists in part to promote the pub drawings of Alan Roulstone, and aims to make a broad cross-section of them available to enthusiasts, collectors and researchers alike. Among titles projected for 2005 are the first four in a series of regional booklets under the general title A Traveller's Rests. In the meantime, three CD-ROMs have been prepared, each including a Life of the Artist, Indexes, and - to facilitate reproduction - a separate folder of all Bitmap Images featured. Produced in PDF format, they are accessible on all computers equipped with an Adobe Acrobat Reader Version 5.0 or later. Prices include p&p in the UK only.
Pub-Crawling Britain: Alan Roulstone's 1950s reproduces 275 drawings executed in all parts of England and Wales between 1950 and 1960, including a generous selection from the West Country. In addition to the general apparatus, the CD incorporates illustrated résumés of the various books Roulstone published during the 1950s, including his first series entitled A Pub-Crawler's Companion, and a 5,000-word appendix, "Pub-Crawling in the 1950s", which attempts (using examples from Roulstone's work) to determine what distinguished the 1950s' British inn or tavern from its counterpart in the 1960s and later. (£20)
One For the Road: Alan Roulstone's 1960s reproduces all 390 drawings featuring in 15 books published by Roulstone between 1963 and 1967 under the general title One For the Road. The pages from the first three of these are reproduced in their entirety, and an appendix, "The British Public House and the 1960s", highlights some of the fundamental changes the institution underwent during that decade - changes which Roulstone uniquely recorded in line as they were taking place. (£20)
Taverns in Town: Alan Roulstone's London reproduces the complete pages from three extremely rare volumes Roulstone published in 1960, Taverns in Town. The drawings alone appear again in the main illustrations section, together with all other extant views of the capital's taverns, including 24 in colour from a 1973 volume of the same title (which like the earlier volumes is accorded a descriptive résumé). The CD reproduces 131 views all told, a number of whose subjects have since disappeared, making the production of interest not only to enthusiasts and collectors but to topographers and London historians in general. (£17.50)
(The CDs described above are available exclusively from the publisher, and all orders - by mail only, to the address above - should be accompanied by advance payment
The Alan Roulstone collection © 2000 Michael Roulstone