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# "The Education of Mr. Pipp" This page is primarily **advertising for books and publications** from 1899. The main cartoon shows a disheveled figure holding artwork, illustrating C.D. Gibson's 1899 book collection featuring "Pipp" series sketches. The character appears to represent an everyman being "educated" through Gibson's humorous illustrations. The satire likely mocks pretentious art education or self-improvement through popular culture—Gibson's cartoons were known for commentary on American social types. The figure's wild hair and cluttered appearance suggest chaos created by attempting cultural refinement through mass-market illustrations. However, without clearer context about who "Mr. Pipp" specifically was, the exact satirical target remains **unclear**. The page functions primarily as promotional material for Gibson's illustrated works and competing holiday gift books from various publishers.

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COPYRIGHT, 1009, BY MITCHELL & MILLER. 4 happy family especial Edition-de-tuze, on Japau paper. compositions by and Louls Rbead Animal Jokes. By Many Baker-Baxen. Forty-six clever fall page humorous drawings by the artist whose signature ts the well-known double With jokes by A. Crawford. Cover in Boards, 944 x 12 inches. B. colors. Mr. Badman. By Joux Bexvas. with twelve full-page orge Wootllseroft Rhead “deslgned to portray the THE EDUCATION OF MR. PIPP. Cc. D. CIBSON’S BOOK FOR 1899. Mr. Gibson's sense of beauty and his sense of humor are here shown at their very best. The book contains in addition to the large cartouns of the ‘Pipp” series, forty new sketches: of that made for it, former works, '‘ Drawings by C. D. Gibson,” -‘ Pictures of People,” and ‘* Sketches and Cartoons.” Each volumg is enclosed in a box with a pictorial cover design. Large folio, 12 x 18 inches, uniform with Mr. Gibson's three Price, $5.00. limited to 250 impressions, each copy numbered and signed by Mr. Gibson together with a signed artist's proof on Japan paper. Price, $10.00 net. Special Foition de-tuze, one hundred signed and numbered copies of the first impressions, together with a handsom: signed porifolio, containing twenty-tive artist’s proofs of the best of the sketches Price, $25.00 net. Cissie Loftus. charming souvenir of the cifted mimic Beautifully Ulustrated with elght full-page Photographs and drawings hy C. ALLAN Guext. Cover design to color by Ernest Maskell, Size, 9 x 6 Inches. Badman’s "Mand heavy paper. Price, $5.50. Price, Svc. Julia Marlowe: as Bar- bara Frietchie. A handsome sonventt containing photo- kraphs and drawings by C. ALLAN Gi of Miss “over printed in colors. Price, $1.25, Pree, 2c. Sent prepaid on receipt of price. New catalogue beautifully illustrated by GIBSON, REMINGTON, WENZELL, KEMBLE, NICHOLSON and ABBEY. containing full description of the above and other attractive new illus- 1 § trated books, cal HOLIDAY GIFT BOOKS Paul Leicester Ford By the author of '*The Hon, Peter Stirling,” ** The Story of an Untold Love,” etc. Also, Illustrated Holiday Edition. 2 volumes, in box, containing 58 full-page drawings by //oward Py/e and his pupils; 14 Facsimiles and JANICE MEREDITH. Reproductions from Old Prints ; and 2 miniatures # color (Frontispieces). “Janice Meredith is not a mere mixture of history and romance but a chemigal union, resulting in a book that will make a histori historian."—W, ¥. Limes. William Shakespeare AS YOU LIKE IT. With five full-page illustrations reproduced in color by photo-lithography, and numerous drawings and decorations to accompany the text, by Witt H. Low, 8vo, cloth $2.50 Mrs. Oliphant THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MARGARET OLIPHANT, | 1828-1897 With two portraits in photogravure. 8vo, cloth $3.50 One of the most delightful autobiographies of the year Esthor Singleton GREAT PICTURES DESCRIBED BY GREAT WRITERS. * With numerous . . . . $2.00 ha reproduction of fifty ur sixty masterpieces several pictures from the masters of literature. s Barth of Venus by Walter Pater; Guido's Beatrice Cenci by radise by Ruskin, ete. Sir Walter Bosant THE ORANGE GIRL. By the author of '' The Golden Butterfly,” etc, With eight illustrations by Warren Da t2mo cloth $1.50 A virile romance of the 18th Century with sustained interes and thrilling incident, 8. R. Crockett IONE MARCH, A WOMAN OF FORTUNE. of The Raiders,” ete cloth Mr. Crockett has here broken new ground. Itisa stofy of to-day, and the herois American girl By the author With illustrations by E. Pollak. 12mo, $1.50 ne is an Victorion Sardou ROBESPIERRE. The story of Sardou’s play adapted and novelized under his authority by Ange Goldemar. 12mo, cloth $1.50 AT ALL 12mo, cloth $1.50 12mo, cloth . : : : . . 5.00 ian of the novel reader and a novel reader ol the Hamilton W. Mabie MY STUDY FIRE. With over 60 illustrations., by Maud and Genevieve Cowles. 8vo, cloth David Storrar Meldrum HOLLAND AND THE HOLLANDERS. By the author of ‘‘ The Story of Margredel” Profusely illustrated. 8 vo, cloth $2.00 eis full of exact comprehensive information, but told in a delightfully sympathetic way, and with a perfect understanding of Holland and the Dutch. Hamilton W. Mabio THE LIFE OF THE SPIRIT. By the author of ‘Essays on Books and Culture,” and editor of The Outlook. 16mo, cloth $1.25 An endeavor to pat the truths of the feliious life in vital relation with human, experienc, and to show the value of these truths in men’s lives and work. Neil Munro GILIAN THE DREAMER. By the author of * etc.,etc. Hlustrated. t2mo. cloth . . . As charming a story as “John Splendid,” an : without the Scotch dialect. Paul.Laurence Dunbar POEMS OF CABIN AND FIELD. With illustrations by the Hampton Camera Club. and decorations by Alice C. Morse. &vo, cloth A : a . 31.50 trations for these Dialect Poems having been made from photographs taken by Hampton Institute, Va Esther Singleton COMPANION AND GUIDE TO THE OPERA. By the trans. lator of Lavignac’s ‘* Music Dramas of Wagner," etc., etc. Small 8vo, cloth g $1.50 6 in photogravure, * $2.50 John’ Splendid,” BL.g0 A comprehensive view 1s given of the principal eperas,c ering the story, stage 3c! and setting, and the music, both vocal and inswramental. BOOKSTORES DODD, MEAD & COMPANY, Publishers, New York