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 Edition de Luxe of

On the flop !

Price, 21s.

Limited to 475 numbered copies at 1/. is., in demy folio size (17^2 x io>^ inches), printed on superfine art paper, handsomely bound in quarter cloth, with decorated panel.

A MAGNIFICENT VOLUME, containing upwards of three hundred illustrations, newly-engraved from the original Australian drawings by Livingston Hopkins (" Hop," of " The Bulletin "), being a selection made under the superintendence of the artist from his most humorous and effective cartoons and pictures during twenty years.

Fifteen copies extra, bound in morocco, with four additional illustrations and a photograph of ' ' Hop ' ' taken for this work only ; price, 3/. 3s.

At 21s. ; in box, posted, 23s.

Phil map in Australia ;

Edition de luxe, printed on superior paper, bound in quarter cloth, decorated, with a special end-paper. Contains upwards of Two Hundred examples of the celebrated artist's work in Australia in all styles — portraits, cartoons and humorous sketches.

Also cheaper abridged edition, handsomely printed ; crown folio, decorated wrapper, 2s. 6d.

Phil May joined the staff of " The Bulletin " in 1885, at the age of twenty-one, and for two and a-half years remained in Australia. His style, already formed, was in this period developed and assured. His eye for a likeness and for character, and the dexterity and decision with which he set down his impressions, became remarkable. In technical quality of draughtsmanship he never surpassed the drawings made at this time.

Nearly every notable Australian personage of the 'eighties was a subject for May's pen. His drawings might form no inconsiderable contribution to a National portrait gallery. Numerous political cartoons represent a class of work which he did not attempt elsewhere. To his Australian period, also, belong some of the best among his humorous pictures.

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