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GORHAM, MAURICE:
The Local.
London. Cassell & Co. Ltd. 1939 1st edition.
Tall 8vo.
In grey hard card covers with red lettering to spine and front.
B/w illustration to front.
In generally good condition.
Spine slightly darkened with cm loss lower spine.
Small marks to covers.
Slight browning to endpapers with owners inscription.
Another small initials inscription lower corner of half title page.
Else a clean and tight copy.
51pp.
With colour lithographs by Edward Ardizzone.
This, the first of Ardizzone’s homages to the English Pub, was printed by the Curwen Press and can be seen as a companion to Eric Ravilious’s ‘High Street’.
It was issued without a dust-jacket.
In the successor volume, Maurice Gorham noted that the unsold copies of ‘The Local’, together with its printed sheets and plates, “went up together in the burning of Cassell’s premises in Belle Sauvage Yard”.
The book has a Glossary which provides a fascinating contrast with today’s pubs.
There is also a Postscript mentioning the changes that have have come about since the book was written in peace time and is published in war time
. 93582
The Local.
London. Cassell & Co. Ltd. 1939 1st edition.
Tall 8vo.
In grey hard card covers with red lettering to spine and front.
B/w illustration to front.
In generally good condition.
Spine slightly darkened with cm loss lower spine.
Small marks to covers.
Slight browning to endpapers with owners inscription.
Another small initials inscription lower corner of half title page.
Else a clean and tight copy.
51pp.
With colour lithographs by Edward Ardizzone.
This, the first of Ardizzone’s homages to the English Pub, was printed by the Curwen Press and can be seen as a companion to Eric Ravilious’s ‘High Street’.
It was issued without a dust-jacket.
In the successor volume, Maurice Gorham noted that the unsold copies of ‘The Local’, together with its printed sheets and plates, “went up together in the burning of Cassell’s premises in Belle Sauvage Yard”.
The book has a Glossary which provides a fascinating contrast with today’s pubs.
There is also a Postscript mentioning the changes that have have come about since the book was written in peace time and is published in war time
. 93582
