PHIL MAY. Master-draughtsman & Humorist 1864 - 1903.
London, Bombay & Sydney, Published by George G.Harrap & Co., 1932. First Edition.4to. pp.211, index, iconography. Profusely illustrated in black & white and a couple in colour. It has been read so the odd mark. the binding is green cloth titled in black with a little wear and a small hole in the green cloth at the top of the spine.
Has the booksellers ticket of the Roycroft Bookshop on the front endpaper.
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A Very Nice Association Copy
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This bears the bookplate of E.S.Scorfield who came to Sydney in 1925 and joined the Bulletin as a cartoonist and illustrator, replacing Norman Lindsay.This was his copy,
Loosely inserted a photograph titled 'Phil May & Rev. Brophy Sydney 1892 taken by Tyrrell.
'James Tyrrell, in his book 'Old books, old friends, old Sydney' (1952), wrote that whenever Phil May met the Reverand J Brophy, a retired clergyman and the main subject of this drawing: 'he would get him to pose for a sketch. The old gentleman never seemed to mind posing for Phil, and he was needy enough to welcome with thanks and a blessing, the invariable five-shilling model's fee which Phil passed on to him.'. Item #196562
Phil May was born and died in England but for three years when Philip May worked in Sydney and Melbourne, he was the gold standard of the colonies’ cartoonists. And May’s experience of working for The Bulletin magazine helped shape a style that led to him being dubbed a genius in his homeland.
Price: $400.00