May, Phil — Phil May's ABC

London, The Leadenhall Press, 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Fifty-two original designs from the humorist Phil May, who died in 1903, making thus two alphabets from A to Z. Rebound handsomely in an olive-drab green cloth, with stamped gilt dentelles diagonally to front and rear covers, with "Cross Binders to the King" ink-stamped verso of first free endpaper. Abrading to burgundy cloth label at spine, gilt lettering thereover, light bumping to spine head and foot. Foxing to, light soiling of endpapers front and rear, else clean and unmarked of interior, and printed on high-gloss paper, quite nice.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good