On and Off Duty.
GROVES, (Captain J[ohn], Percy) & PAYNE (Harry and Arthur)
4to. Chromolithographic frontispiece and six other similar full-page illustrations, four full colour chromolithographic vignettes to the text, five full-page tinted lithographic illustrations and twenty-five similar vignettes. Very good wire-stitched in the original cloth-backed chromolithographically printed paper-covered boards, somewhat soiled and a little rubbed. 36pp. Raphael Tuck & Sons, London, Paris & New York, Printed by the Fine Art Works, Saxony, n.d. [c1891]
AMOT 375, moderately uncommon NSTC records only the Bodleian copy, OCLC lists eight. Many illustrations in common with other Groves and Payne joint productions for Tuck. Good to see in the original illustrated boards and with the plates untroubled by the usual adhesion problems that follow from having chromolithographic illustrations facing each other. This copy saved by the presence of original, or at least early, loose tissue-guards.
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