First edition. Original green cloth, 1916

Component identifier:

Item 30(d)

Content Summary:

With 24 pages of advertisements, and caption similar to the preceding copies. The cover picture has not been bound in. Extra-illustrated with a fine full-page drawing on end-paper, in colour. It depicts the artist, a diminutive figure walking between two giant size policemen. With long inscription: 'Dear Harry Chaplin: Long before I met 'Den' I did Lillie-Bourke and Little Lon with the cops. They took me around with them and I drew Chows in 'joints', saw white girls disappear into black doors, heard the clock of gambling in the threatening alleys, drank Chinamen's beer, and saw the dawn come greyly in. And so, again, I told my cobber 'Den' all about it and that's how he came by his knowledge of such places. 'Den' never saw Spadger's Lane...'

Immediate source of acquisition:

The collection was purchased from Harry Chaplin in 1981.

Names:

Chaplin, Harry F.

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