Later issue. Pale blue cloth, 1916

Component identifier:

Item 31(e)

Content Summary:

There are no advertisements in this copy, neither has the cover picture been bound in. The caption to illustration facing page 109, has been altered to read 'Yeh ort to see the boys uv my ole squad'.

Extra-illustrated by a full page drawing in colour, depicting 'Ginger Dennis for Harry Chaplin, Hal Gye Jan. 1950'. A good portrait of Dennis, dressed as Ginger Mick. Tipped in is long autograph note by Hal Gye, 4pp, with illustrations of the artist sitting at his table by the window and a policeman passing by outside. Gye writes: 'Yes, I was in Molesworth Chambers (now gone), Low upstairs...As you know Low shifted me early one morning, and I have never been able to make up my mind whether Dave moved me to share a studio with him for my good company or just to share the rent. In this studio at the Olderfleet in Collins Street I drew the jacket for Ginger Mick...the Ginger Mick jacket was the only Mick illustration I drew in this studio; I drew the line drawings at my home in Kent Street, Newmarket. This jacket was the first Dennis (and the only one) illustration drawn here. I've always liked to be absolutely alone when doing a set of drawings...As for The sentimental bloke Cupids, they never saw the Olderfleet - they were created at the same Kent Street, Newmarket, and Mr Roberts in his diary got it all wrong. When I unveiled the Dennis Plaque recently I, during my talk told the story...The Age News of the Day column wrote it up, and so where Hal Gye drew The sentimental bloke illustrations is Law now, so to speak, and that's that...It is not of much importance, anyhow, still if history demands the truth - well, I'm providing it here. July 1963.'

The above is a very brief extract from a long series of comments concerning the drawings of the Dennis books.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The collection was purchased from Harry Chaplin in 1981.

Names:

Chaplin, Harry F.

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