Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

William Henry Smith NPG Ax5439

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Herbert Rose Barraud, published by Eglington & Co

At the age of twenty-one he became a partner in his father's newsagent business. Although his father wished to confine the business to an agency selling newspapers, Smith rented a bookstall at Euston Station in 1848. He developed a network of railway bookstalls widely, and by 1862 had secured exclusive bookstall rights on all the important English railway systems. Though he had entered the business reluctantly, he became one of the best-known Victorian capitalists, whose name in the mid-nineteenth century was a byword for mass... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.