Original green cloth, 1916

Component identifier:

Item 15(g)

Content Summary:

The fifty-first thousand. Autographed by C.J. Dennis on the half-title. For this issue Hal Gye designed a frontispiece and panel for the title-page, both printed in colour. He also designed the end-paper paste downs. The book has 23 pages of advertisements dated June 1916. The glossary has been enlarged and is to serve both The sentimental bloke and Ginger Mick. It now contains the words 'Top, off one's' and 'Top off, to'. A preface has been added by the author. The book was issued with a double dust-jacket.

With a long series of autograph notes by Hal Gye. He writes that the frontispiece to the book was drawn from a small dwelling near to the artist's home at Flemington with the caption: 'When we parts at the gate'. Here he also drew the illustrations for The bloke, and not in Low's studio as previously recorded. For the original drawings he received one guinea each, and for the dust-jacket the fee was five guineas. Gye asked for the return of the drawings which was granted. When he married George Robertson sent him 50 pounds. Gye sold all the drawings, with the exception of one which he presented to Dennis.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The collection was purchased from Harry Chaplin in 1981.

Names:

Chaplin, Harry F.

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