Back to the Local - Maurice Gorham and Edward Ardizzone, London, 1949
The dust wrapper to a charming book - a classic on English pubs, written by Maurice Gorham and illustrated by Edward Ardizzone. This edition - 1949 - was a revision of the real classic, the 1939 edition, most copies of which (and the original plates) had been lost in the London Blitz of 1940/1 when the offices of Cassells', the publishers of Belle Sauvage Yard, was destroyed along with many other publishing houses in the vicinity. This makes the first edition quite rare. The pub shown is the old Warwick Castle in Maida Vale a pub that is, amazingly, still with us.
Back to the Local - Maurice Gorham and Edward Ardizzone, London, 1949
The dust wrapper to a charming book - a classic on English pubs, written by Maurice Gorham and illustrated by Edward Ardizzone. This edition - 1949 - was a revision of the real classic, the 1939 edition, most copies of which (and the original plates) had been lost in the London Blitz of 1940/1 when the offices of Cassells', the publishers of Belle Sauvage Yard, was destroyed along with many other publishing houses in the vicinity. This makes the first edition quite rare. The pub shown is the old Warwick Castle in Maida Vale a pub that is, amazingly, still with us.