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***FALL CLEARANCE SALE*** Cloth, 208 pages, illustrations (some colour), facsimiles, portraits; 24 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket, with a sunned spine (bold & legible titles), A biography of Cecil Charles Windsor Aldin (1870-1935), English sporting artist. Profusely illustrated with posters, illustrations. Size: 8vo

Exeter, Devon: Webb & Bower, 1981. Cloth, 208 pages, illustrations (some colour), facsimiles, portraits; 24 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket, with a sunned spine (bold & legible titles), protected in a mylar cover. A biography of Cecil Charles Windsor Aldin (1870-1935), English sporting artist. Profusely illustrated with posters, illustrations.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

dust jacket is in a clear protective wrapper, minimal bumping to edges, price unclipped, 208pp, pages clean and fine condition

Faded jacket spine, some foxing to page edges. Else Vg / Vg hardback copy. LISTING PHOTO DOES NOT NECESSARILY MATCH THIS COPY.

1st edition hardcover with B/W illustrated boards. Corner crease on the foot of rear board from a hard knock. 208pp text is bright and clear with no markings inside. Frontispiece present. Original unclipped dj shows 2 small chips and spine shows some color loss, displays well in new mylar. Cecil Aldin's life story lavishly illustrated with his own drawings and paintings, some in color including charming family photographs.

As brand new.

Richly illustrated (of course) biography of an English artist whose paintings, sketches, cartoons and caricatures characterised his period and made him a household name on both sides of the Atlantic. His work in infused with wit and warmth and largely inspired by aspects of sport, as was his life. Top page edges speckled o/w the book is clean and sound throughout. All our UK orders are sent by First Class post. All profits to Amnesty International. Size: 18cm - 24cm with 208pp

This copy is in fine, unmarked condition bound in green cloth covered boards decorated by the artist, with bright black titling to the spine. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. The unclipped dust wrapper has some mild edge wear to the head of the spine but is still in near fine condition. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. Cecil Charles Windsor Aldin (28 April 1870 – 6 January 1935), was a British artist and illustrator best known for his paintings and sketches of animals, sports, and rural life. Aldin executed village scenes and rural buildings in chalk, pencil and also wash sketching. He was an enthusiastic sportsman and a Master of Fox Hounds, and many of his pictures illustrated hunting. Aldin's early influences included Randolph Caldecott and John Leech. Ref A4 1

Published by Webb & Bower, 1981. 1st edition.. Hardback. Very Good/Good. Illustrated by Aldin, Cecil. Very good condition in an almost very good dustwrapper. A detailed biography of the famous illustrator of dogs. Green pictorial boards. Colour and b/w illustrations throughout. 208 pages. 9.5 x 7". A little bumping to spine. Front board is a little bowed. Pale page edge browning and some foxing otherwise contents are clean. Wrapper is edge worn and a little chipped. Uneven fading to spine and both panels. Foxing to verso.

1st edn. Tall 8vo. Original green pictorial cloth (VG), dustwrapper (VG in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. 208, illus with coloured and b&w drawings and plates throughout (previous owner's gift inscription on front endpaper).