The book wa published to coincide with the exhibition at the Wallace Collection, London (2 Oct. 2008 - 11 Jan. 2009), and includes bibliographical references. " This book , with its unrivalled selection of illustrations from the Lancaster archive, provides the first opportunity since Osbert Lancaster's death in 1986 to reasses the achievement of this dazzling polymath, artist, dandy, writer and wit, whose work will come as revelation to past enthusiasts and to those discovering him for the first time" (front flap)