Note from the Editor:
A longish gap after part 18 was posted caused by computer problems. Glitches on the new formatting from "Blogger" has made it very difficult to format properly. Odd font sizes, weights, and colours are evident here, with no means of correcting. After posting on art for ten years, I'll endeavour to get the end of the Phil May series, and will then consider whether I can continue.
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Philip William May was a caricaturist. He was born near Leeds and was the son of an engineer who died when May was nine years old. May worked in a variety of jobs before moving to London, and shortly afterward to Australia, when he was seventeen. In Australia he found work with the Sydney Bulletin, and in just three years produced over 800 drawings for the Bulletin. On his return to London in 1892 May drew for the St Stephen's Review; his studies of the London guttersnipes and coster-girls rapidly made him famous. He became a regular member of the staff of Punch in 1896, and in his later years his services were retained exclusively for Punch and The Graphic.
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| Title Page |
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| 1893 "And she ought to know!" |
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| 1894 An Important 'Junction. |
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| 1894 Not what he meant. |
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| 1894 Q.E.D. |
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| 1894 The Genial Season. |
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| 1894 The Plunger. |
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| 1895 "A Soft Answer,"&c. |
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| 1895 A Gourmand. |
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| 1895 A Lecture in Store. |
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| 1895 A Model. |
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| 1895 A Special Pleader. |
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| 1895 A Sunday Dinner. |
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| 1895 Botany: Or, a Day in the Country. |
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| 1895 Much Ado. |
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| 1895 So Likely! |
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| 1895 So That Doesn't Count. |
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| 1896 A Natural Query. |
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| 1896 A Sketch from Life. |
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| 1896 A Threat Misplaced. |
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| 1896 An Awkward Admission. |
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| 1896 Inappropriate. |
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| 1896 Obvious. |
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| 1896 Self-Criticism. |
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| 1897 A Homely Test. |
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| 1897 Art in Whitechapel. |
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| 1897 From Dottyville. |
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| 1897 Notes of Travel. |
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| 1897 Petticoat Lane. |
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| 1897 Sending-in-Day at the R.A. |
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| 1897 The National Sporting Club, London. |
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| 1898 A Rejoinder. |
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| 1898 An Awakening. |
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| 1898 An Injured Innocent. |
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| 1898 Another From Dottyville. |
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| 1898 Disadvantages of Performing at a Country House in the Wasp Season. |
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| 1898 Feeding the Pigeons at St. Marks Square, Venice. |
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| 1898 Feline Impressions. |
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| 1898 Flippancy. |
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| 1899 'arry from'olland. |
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| 1898 Poor letter H. |
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| 1899 "The Grey Mare." |
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| 1899 A Soliloquy. |
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| 1899 An Unexpected Reply. |
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| 1899 At a Garden Party. |
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| 1899 Convincing. |
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| 1899 Critics from the Quartier Latin. |
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| 1899 Malapropos. |
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| 1899 Mistrust. |
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| 1899 Overheard at a Country Fair. |
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| 1899 Overheard on the Steps of The Army and Navy Stores. |
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| 1899 The Very Latest Discovery. |
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| 1900 A Breezy Customer. |
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| 1900 An Artless Query. |
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| 1900 Eureka! |
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| 1900 Graphic. |
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| 1900 Hard Lines. |
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| 1900 Jam Satis. |
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| 1900 Mafeking Night. |
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| 1900 Rather Difficult for Him. |
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| 1901 "An Englishman's House."&c. |
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| 1901 A Connoisseur. |