THE FAIRY STORY THAT CAME TRUE by Outhwaite, Ida Rentoul - 192-

N: The British Imperial Oil Co. Limited, 192-. Pp. 20(including the wrappers, colophon and blanks), coloured frontispiece and 4 full page illustrations, black & white pictorial head & tailpiece, full page map with pictorial border; small cr. 4to; pictorial paper wrappers, stapled, faintly foxed and a trifle soiled, the fore-corners slightly creased; within the original plain envelope (lightly soiled and worn, edges rubbed and split); edges of leaves faintly foxed, the bottom fore-corners lightly creased; The British Imperial Oil Co. Limited, [Melbourne, 1922?]. Muir 2396. *'Some time in the 1920s Ida was commissioned by the British Imperial Oil Company, distributors of Shell Motor Oil, to illustrate a booklet with fairy pictures for distribution free through petrol stations... It seems likely that [her husband] Grenbry may have obtained this commission through his friendship with the manager of the company' [Muir & Holden, p. 58]. Outhwaite illustrated other advertising material for The British Imperial Oil Co., including a couple of Shell Fairy Calendars and The Sentry and the Shell Fairy. b.