Wheeler and Co. London, 1950s Prints:Rear Courtesy University of Nevada

Courtesy University of Nevada

Designed as an “ocean greyhound” to speed across the Atlantic between England and New York

two years before the death of Queen Victoria

One of the best-known magazine illustrators of the 1920s

Wheeler and Co. London, 1950s Prints:Rear Courtesy University of NevadaWith 28 different ways to cook Dover sole, eleven ways to consume lobster and many other fish specialities this menu from Wheeler's of Old Compton Street in London is a piscatarian's dream. The interior of this beautifully illustrated menu features a mermaid waitress and a fiendish and bearded merman chef while the front cover is stylishly minimal. Wheeler's Oyster Bar was established in Whitstable, a lovely small fishing town on the Kent coast, in