PHIL MAY'S GUTTER-SNIPES

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The impressions herein are extra carefully printed as PROOFS on fine paper, and the issue is limited to one thousand and fifty copies, of which this is No. 462.

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Frontispiece

PHIL MAY'S GUTTER-SNIPES 50 Original Sketches in Pen & Ink LONDON: THE LEADENHALL PRESS, LIMITED. (THESE SKETCHES xxHAVE BEENxx ARE SEPARATELY COPYRIGHTED)

June 30th. 96. My Dear Tuer Here is the last of the Gutter snipe drawings and sorry I am to leave them! Children of the gutter roam about free and are often hungry, but what would one give for such appetites? You and I smoke big cigars while they all too soon, poor little chaps smoke what you and I and others throw away. Sometimes I wonder whether they don't lead the happier lives? Yours always Phil May

BOY. "NO? WHY DON'T YOU NEVER TREAT YOURSELF TO NO LUXURIES, GUVNER?"

WHAT BETSY-ANN MAKES OF IT. DEPARTING GUEST. "WILL YOU CALL ME A CAB?" BETSY-ANN. "ANSOM, FOUR-WHEELER OR MOVER, SIR?" (A TIMES CORRESPONDENT SUGGESTS THAT THE HORSELESS CARRIAGE BE CALLED AN "AUTO-MOVER")

PHIL MAY'S A B C FIFTY-TWO ORIGINAL DESIGNS forming TWO HUMOROUS ALPHABETS from A TO Z LONDON THE LEADENHALL PRESS LIMITED. Each initial has been separately copyrighted. READY IN JANUARY

Transcriber's Notes:

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Apparent printer's errors have been retained.

Missing page numbers are attributed to blank pages in the original text.

Some apparent blemishes on the illustrations have been retained to preserve the authenticity of the original pen and ink drawings.

Illustrations appear in the same order as the original. In some cases (Illustrations 43-50), this varies from the order stated in the Table of Drawings.

Page 6, The words struck out on the title page have been surrounded by "xx" in the alternative text tag to show the strikethrough.

Page 12, Period added. (You and I smoke big cigars while they--all too soon, poor little chaps--smoke what you and I and others throw away.)