May, Phil — Sketches from "Punch

London, Punch" Office, . . Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy bound in a tall softpaper format, and protected in stiff Mylar; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Edition and date of publication are not stated but are almost certainly First Edition and 1903, respectively, but devoted to the illustrations of Phil May, who died in 1903 at the age of only 37 and who was memorialized by Owen Seaman at Foreword, dated 1903. Moderate soiling of front wraps, bright advertisements to rear panel and inside both rear and front flaps, toning to endpapers, else quite clean, bright and still tightly bound. 111 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good