A holiday brochure for the doomed Titanic has surfaced after 106 years.
The booklet, aimed first-class passengers, is packed with exotic, colourful images of the largest liner of the age.
It takes would-be travellers on a trip through the “unsinkable” ship, from opulent lounges to the Louis XVI-style restaurant and the promenade deck.
State rooms costing the equivalent of £40,000 are also featured along with baths and the grand staircase featured in the 1997 Kate Winslet movie.
The brochure states: "In the middle of the hall roses a gracefully curving staircase.
"The staircase is one of the principal features of the ship and will be greatly admired as being, without doubt, the finest piece of workmanship of its kind afloat."
On 14 April 1912 the liner hit an iceberg and sank with the loss of 1,517 lives.
The booklet, up for sale in Devizes, Wilts, on October 20, is tipped to fetch £10,000.
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Auctioneer Andrew Aldridge said: "These brochures were created to put bums on seats.
"Anything to do with White Star Line was always of the highest order. Titanic was their flagship and was the biggest and best ship in the world and these brochures reflect that.
"They would have been very pleasing to the eye to first and second class passengers and described a lifestyle on board that they wanted to be part of."
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