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Item #38382 The Phil May Folio of Caricature Drawings and Sketches in Line Block, Half-Tone and Photogravure. With a Biography. n/a.
The Phil May Folio of Caricature Drawings and Sketches in Line Block, Half-Tone and Photogravure. With a Biography
The Phil May Folio of Caricature Drawings and Sketches in Line Block, Half-Tone and Photogravure. With a Biography

The Phil May Folio of Caricature Drawings and Sketches in Line Block, Half-Tone and Photogravure. With a Biography

London: W. Thacker & Co., [1904]. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. [20], XV, [15], 245, [5]pp. Original green cloth, with gold lettering and illustration on front cover, and gold lettering on spine. Illustrated endpapers. Frontispiece photogravure portrait of the artist protected with a tissue-guard. Title page in red and black lettering. Published shortly after Phil May*'s death, this volume contains a selection of some of the best caricature drawings and sketches produced by the artist. The illustrations are divided into 14 groups: I.- Celebrities and Personages; II.- Costers and Cockney; III.- Brother Brushes; IV.- In the Bars and Streets; V.- Studies and Sketches; VI.- Within and Without the Ghetto; VII.- "Types I have Met," and "Things we see when we go without our Gun"; VIII.- Among the Thespians; IX.- Studies and Sketches Abroad; X.- With the Children; XI.- By the Sea; XII.- On the Country-side; XIII.- Sporting Characters; XIV.- Irish and Scottish. Binding, sunned, discolored, and rubbed along edges. Offsetting on endpapers. Binding in overall poor to fair, interior in good+ to very good condition. Fair-Good+. Item #38382

* Philip ('Phil') William May (1864-1903) was a draftsman, caricaturist and illustrator greatly influenced by Edward Linley Sambourne. He began his career as a scene painter, actor and pantomime costume designer, and contributed drawings to the Yorkshire Gossip, before he was 'discovered' by the actor Lionel Brough and worked for Society and St Stephen's Review. In Australia from 1885 to 1888 he contributed to the Sydney Bulletin. He then moved to Paris to study art. By 1890 he had returned to London and was anxious to join James Whistler's Chelsea Arts Club. He was elected in 1891. From 1892 to 1903 May produced Phil May's Winter Annual, which established his reputation as a caricaturist of Bohemian life and urban culture. He also worked for the Daily Graphic, Graphic, Illustrated London News, Sketch, Punch, English Illustrated Magazine and Pick-Me-Up. In 1895 he published Phil May's Sketch Book: Fifty Cartoons and in 1896 Guttersnipes: Fifty Original Sketches. In 1896 May was elected to the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours and was appointed Chair of Punch.

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