“He made the Sporting Novel something so entirely
different to what it had been that he must be
recognised as the originator of a new species more
elevated, more refined, and more largely imbued
with the spirit of modern society. No reader can
take up any one of his best stories without feeling
himself in a fresh atmosphere, and on a higher
range of thought and feeling than he was conscious
of in the sporting writers of the preceding
generation.”—_Standard._
“What is most rare in writers of this class
Whyte-Melville possessed to a considerable
degree, namely, the ability to hold the attention
of readers, whether they were sportsmen or
not.”—_Saturday Review._
“An edition more worthy of the novelist has
certainly not been issued before.”—_World._
“Fulfils every requirement of the book-lover
in paper, type, illustrations, and
binding.”—_Saturday Review._
[Illustration]
=THE PHIL MAY FOLIO=
=OF CARICATURE DRAWINGS AND SKETCHES=
_In Line Block, Half-Tone, and Photogravure_.
The Folio includes about =250= Drawings by
the late Artist, largely selected by himself from
=_Phil May's Annual_= as representing his
best efforts in various styles. A number of Sketches
are also given which have never before been published.
The Drawings are arranged in fourteen groups, as
follows, each group being preceded by a brief comment:—
1. Personages and Celebrities.—2. Costers and Cockneys.—
3. Brother Brushes.—4. The Bars and the Streets.—5.
Character Studies.—6. Within and Without the Ghetto.—
7. Types I Have Met; and Things we See when we come
out without Our Gun.—8. Among the Thespians.—9.
Studies and Sketches Abroad.—10. With the Children.—11.
By the Sea.—12. On the Country-side.—13. Sporting
Sketches.—14. Irish and Scottish.
=A Biography by a personal friend and a full-page
Portrait of the Artist in Photogravure, are important
features of the book.=
=TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY COPIES= only, printed on
Arnold's Unbleached Hand-Made Paper, and bound in
quarter vellum, at =TWO GUINEAS EACH=.
=ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY COPIES=, quarter buckram,
gilt edges, 31_s._ 6_d._ EACH.
=SIX HUNDRED COPIES=, on large post paper,
bound art cloth, =ONE GUINEA EACH=.
∴ _The Large Paper Edition will be raised from Two
Guineas to Three Guineas after publication._
The Half-tone Illustrations are printed on India Paper
in the TWO-GUINEA Edition.
LONDON: W. THACKER & CO.,
2, CREED LANE, E.C.