The London Apprentice: Makes tea, smokes cigars, set type

FANCY A JOB AS AN APPRENTICE COMPOSITOR*?
(*a snotty-nosed subclass of the primitive species Homo erectus)

A tongue-in-cheek autobiography of an apprentice compositor learning his trade in London's Old Covent Garden during the so-called swinging 'Sixties, when youth culture was, for the first time, finding an identity in a post-war Britain.

Chapters include:
The composer (music critics need not apply).
Trots and trotting (Deli belly? Worse than that!).
A wet lunch (bring your own blotting pape...