Black Beauty – Anna Sewell, Cecil Aldin (1915)

S$94.00

Black Beauty – Anna Sewell, Cecil Aldin (1915)

S$94.00

Title: Black Beauty

Author: Anna Sewell, Cecil Aldin (illus)

Publisher: Jarrold & Sons, London. No date, research reveals it to be c. 1915.

Condition: Hardcover. Reading copy only. 18 colour plates, complete, with plate for p. 90 as frontispiece. Closed tear to the bottom of one plate, illustration not affected. Binding tight, ex-libris plate to ffep. Spine severely sunned, and severe foxing throughout the book. A scarce book, with nice illustrations.

About the illustrator (from Wikipedia):

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.