Footprints of Assurance

New York: Macmillan Company 1953. (4to) 319pp. Very good plus in very good dust jacket. Color frontispiece, black and white and color photographs, bibliography, index. The dust jacket is lightly edgeworn with a shallow chip to the top of the spine and diagonal creasing and closed tears to the bottom 5-1 / 2 inches square corner of the back panel of the dust jacket. "Footprints of Assurance is a comprehensive and complete record of fire marks used by fire insurance companies in sixty-three companies. These insignia themselves tell the story of the development of one of the world's most important economic institutions. Mr. Bulau enriches the story by introducing the reader to some of the men who had been responsible for the growth of the institution. He has enlivened his account with incident and anecdote so that the lay reader may share with the profession an understanding of the spirit which has from the beginning been the distinguishing feature of the enterprise of providing security against loss by fire". Book about Fire Insurance. (Antiques, Antiques, Business, Collectibles, Insignia, Insurance).