Album of published cartoons by May, removed from issues of of St. Stephens review, 1883-1889, and mounted on bound album leaves or tipped into the volume on stubs.
Note in pencil on 2nd front flyleaf by the unidentified compiler of the album, recording the contents of the album and noting that May's last color cartoon for St. Stephen's review appeared in June 13, 1885, with black and white work by the artist appearing in the body of the newspaper up until 1888; below that, an inscription in the hand of former owner Forrest Reid, reading: Why didn't the idiot keep it? The first five drawings that follow are from the St. S. R. Christmas Number, 1883.
Album containing 15 cartoons by Phil May, extracted from various numbers of St. Stephen's review, including 6 black and white cartoons, 5 from the Christmas number of 1883 and 1 from Apr. 6 1889, and 9 full-page "Presentation cartoons" printed in color and dated Jan. 26, 1884 to June 13, 1885, including 4 folded double-page plates. Chiefly political caricatures of Gladstone and other subjects.