The 1895 caption reads: " He half stood half crouched over the board from A Bid for Fortune by Guy Boothby." Guy Newell Boothby (died 1905) was a prolific Australian novelist and writer, noted for sensational fiction in variety magazines around the end of the nineteenth century. He lived mainly in England. A Bid for Fortune was first published in 1895.

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