ALDIN, Cecil.

£1,500 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Ratcatcher to Scarlet. Signed limited edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on an initial leaf, "Cecil Aldin, to Percy Cave because he published it", underneath Aldin's original sketch of a fox, all in pencil. Percy Cave was a director of Eyre and Spottiswoode. This copy is out of series, not having the publisher's numbered limitation label stating that 100 copies were issued signed by the author and with a sketch.Aldin's obituary in The Times asserted that the author and illustrator "can justly be described as one of the leading spirits in the renaissance of British sporting art" (quoted in Horne, p. 67).

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