PL editor, David Butcher writes: 

   "The work of Osbert Lancaster is instantly recognisable to those who grew up in the period from the 1930s to the late 1970s through his books, cartoons and designs for opera, ballet and the theatre. Michael Ginisi bought the architectural satire Draynflete Revealed (1949) as a fourteen-year-old.            "Michael later became a serious collector of Osbert Lancaster's work and his article summarises the growth of his collection, including the acquisition of rare material, such as the booklets dropped by the RAF over occupied Europe during the Second World War."

     Osbert Lancaster

   Draynflete Revealed 

   Publisher: John Murray (1949)

    Our PLA President, Sebastian Carter, writes:

   "I see my uncle John and aunt Ernestine crop up in the Lancaster article. John wrote an appendix to Ernestine’s cookery book 'Flash in the Pan' (1953) with extremely elaborate instructions on how to make a Dry Martini.

   "About a decade later, this was reissued as 200 copies of a small pamphlet called 'The Dry Martini', dedicated (‘by permission’) to the Countess of Littlehampton with a drawing by O.L. of her taking a swig."