1939 Vd

[A]⁸ B-D⁸ E²; E tipped in, not sewn; inserts after [A]1 B2,3,4,5,6 and before C1, conjugate pairs after C1+7 C2+6 C3+5 and C4.

[i-vi] vii-xvi [1-2] 3-31 [32] 33-51 [+1].

Medium 8^o: 9" × 6", trimmed, white wove, no mark, inserts of same paper; 14pt. Baskerville; colour lithographs on inserts; casing, grey paper, printed up spine in red and black: ‘[black] CASSELL [red] THE LOCAL’, and on upper cover: ‘[in red, with line block in black] THE LOCAL | [line block: scene at a public house, including caption] | Lithographs by | EDWARD ARDIZZONE | Text by | MAURICE GORHAM’.

• Ardizzone, Edward, 1900–1979 NPG ODNB
  • see Gilmour (1977) 91-94, Stevenson (2010) p.241 encouraged by Norah Smallwood of Chatto and Windus.
• Baskerville
  • 1757, by John Baskerville of Birmingham;
  • 1923, Monotype, under Morison;
  • see Simon 1956, pp.41 42 46, Simon 1973 p.169, Moran 1971 pp. 45 75.
• Baskerville, 14pt.
• Cassell and Company, London
  • Desmond Flower, partner from 1930, later Chairman, was a friend of Oliver Simon. see Simon 1973 pp.208-10.
• Gorham, Maurice Anthony Coneys, 1902–