Junk?

Great trip to Junk Shop Antiques today, and a couple of nice purchases...

These (main image) are little original pen and ink illustrations by someone signing as WLH / W.L.H, or in some cases as W L Hardie, with these being dated 1908, and 09 (I’m assuming it’s the date….).
I’ve not yet managed to find any info on the artist, and the utterly random nature of the subjects, and some shifts in style, make me wonder if this was just his personal collection of his ‘stuff’. I can relate to that with sketchbooks and drawers full of sketches that may never again see the light of day.
I love what I’m assuming is a self portrait (which has reminded me I’d planned to do my own unflattering self portrait at some point), and the bear stealing a pig is just beautifully observed in the expressions. I could’ve come away with so many more.
The style put me in mind of the amazing Chris Riddell, just 100 years earlier.
Funny to think of the portrait especially, the artist looking out at me 114 years after it was drawn…

Purchase no. 2 was the rather superb 1934 cocktail bible in the extras. For context that’s just a year after prohibition ended. The absolute best bit, even more than the cocktails themselves, were the 3 introductions. So very of their time, talking of bartenders having to be clean shaven, and shouldn't have conversations with patrons.
Love that the author, Patrick Gavin Duffy, believes that a good bartender shouldn’t indulge in conversation with patrons, nor be called ‘mixologists’ (that’s a term that’s older than I thought!).
This is a first edition, though might not be a first print. Need to work that out (though in any event my £29 outlay, it turns out, is a much bigger return - not that I'll be moving it on anytime soon!). But tonight, a Rolls Royce, which isn’t in my Difford’s….