"Scene Changes" 1978 LANCASTER, Osbert

LANCASTER, Osbert [90] pp. Gambit 1978 First Printing 9 3/8" x 6 7/8" Illustrated by the author A selection of comic verses and cartoon social types pen of the Master. The decline and fall of the great Houses in literature. Afternoons with Baedeker. An inspired sequence of English national costumes celebrating the Englishman's supposed horror of ostentation, except for ceremonial purposes, when everybody goes madly camp.