Cecil Aldin. An Artist's Models. H. F. & G. Witherby, 1930.

Price: US$336.34 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: H. F. & G. Witherby 1930 1st edition hardback. Full vellum with gilt titles. One of 310 (250 for sale in UK) signed by Cecil Aldin. This is no. 309. 80pp. Contents complete with the 20 full page drawings, each with captioned tissue-guard. Vellum boards marked. Corners a little bumped. Top corners curled in slightly. Binding is tight. No names or other markings. Many pages have light water stain to lower half of page but nothing too disfiguring. Slight surface damage to blank ep adjacent to half-title page. Please study images. Overall a good copy of this scarce signed limited edition book. 1.1kg packed. If ordering from outside the UK additional postage and tracking will be required and to be agreed thanks

Seller: Wylie Books, Buckfastleigh, United Kingdom

ALDIN, Cecil. Artist's Models, An. London: H. F. & G. Witherby, 1930, 1930.

Price: US$350.00 + shipping

Description: First Edition in the Original Vellum Over Boards Ceceil Aldins' Favorite Dogs - Cracker, Susan, Jemima & Turpentine ALDIN, Cecil. An Artist's Models. London: H. F. & G. Witherby, [n.d., 1930]. First edition. Limited to 310 numbered copies on English hand-made paper (this being copy No. 164), signed by the author/artist. Quarto (11 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches; 285 x 190 mm.). 80 pp. Twenty color plates, with captioned tissue guards. Original vellum over boards lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Very minor discoloration to vellum, mild bump to bottom edge of lower board near joint, otherwise a fine copy. An Artist's Models tell the humorous stories of his models, both professional and amateur - so well that the reader actually knows Cracker, Susan, Jemima, and his beloved rough-haired Dachshund Turpentine aka Von Tirpitz. Cecil Aldin (1870-1935) "was a most prolific artist and illustrator. While living in London, he became friends with the Beggarstaff Brothers (see Houfe under William Nicholson and James Pryde), John Hassall, Phil May and Dudley Hardy, and their influence on his work was great. He produced a great number of prints, a select list of which is included with a comprehensive bibliography in Heron's book [Cecil Aldin: The Story of a Sporting Artist (1981)]. He did a great deal of advertising work, including posters, for such companies as Bovril, Colman (manufacturers of starch and mustard), and Cadbury's, and Royal Doulton produced about sixty items with Aldin drawings between 1910 and 1939. Horses, dogs and the English countryside were the major topics of Aldin's illustrations. The obituary in The Times asserted that ‘there never yet has been a painter of dogs fit to hold a candle to him.Cecil Aldin can justly be described as one of the leading spirits in the renaissance of British sporting art'" (Alan Horne, The Dictionary of 20th Century British Book Illustrators, p. 67). Books written and illustrated by Aldin include Old Inns (1921); Old Manor Houses (1923); Cathedral[s] and Abbey Churches of England (1924); Romances of the Road (1928); An Artist's Models (1930); Exmoor, the Riding Playground of England (1935); and Hunting Scenes (1936).

Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc., Calabasas, CA, U.S.A.

Aldin, Cecil. AN ARTIST'S MODELS. H. F. & G. Witherby, 1930.

Price: US$453.03 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 1st 1930. Very good condition with no wrapper. SIGNED/LTD edition of which 300 copies are for sale. Not a collection of lovely ladies but a collection of even lovelier dogs! 20 superb full-page sketches depicting models the artists has known in various doggy poses. White boards, gilt titles. Plates have captioned tissue-guards. 80 pages, top edge gilt others untrimmed. SIGNED by Aldin to limitation page. This is copy no. 46. Spine and corners bumped. Some foxing and slight grubbiness to covers. Evidence of removal of a name plate to front pastedown. Some pale foxing else contents clean. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

Seller: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, United Kingdom

ALDIN, Cecil. An Artist's Models. Witherby, H. F. & G./Scribners, London/New York, 1930.

Price: US$541.96 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: A sumptuously produced, full vellum bound, card slipcased book containing twenty beautiful full -page, tissued-guarded, half-tone printed signed sketches of different dogs. Number 111 of 310 copies, 250 of which were for sale in the UK and 50 in the USA. Signed by Cecil Aldin in blue ink on the verso of the half title. Printed on fine English handmade paper at the Riverside Press, Edinburgh. Near fine to fine. Lovely, fresh-looking vellum boards with very bright gilt lettering. Internally in beautiful condition with fresh-looking bright white pages and, unusually, only a handful of small faint spots. Grey card slipcase with label is near fine with just a couple of small blemishes.

Seller: MANOR COLLECTABLES, WOODHALL SPA, LINCS, United Kingdom