1930 Rare Illustrated Edition by Cecil ALDIN - BLACK BEAUTY, Autobiography of a Horse by A. Sewell.
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Author: Anna Sewell. (Cecil Aldin, illustrator).
Title: Black Beauty, the Autobiography of a Horse by Anna Sewell, Illustrated by Eighteen Plates in Colour, specially drawn for this edition by Cecil Aldin.
Publisher: London, Published by Jarrolds Publishers for Boots Pure Drug Co., Ltd., Nottingham, no date (1930). First illustrated Edition by Cecil Aldin.
Language: Text in English.
Size: 10 " X 8 ".
Pages: viii-291 pages.
Binding: Attractive and very good, near fine, gilt illustrated quarter blue calf leather binding (hinges fine, overall slightly scuffed - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover.
Content: Very good content (bright, tight and clean, rare light foxing mainly on preliminary and last pages - as shown).
Illustrations: Complete with the beautiful 18 full-page color plates tipped in with their protective tissue guard by Cecil Aldin.
The book: Rare First Illustrated Edition by Cecil Aldin of Black Beauty -- an 1877 novel by English author Anna Sewell. It was composed in the last years of her life, during which she remained in her house as an invalid. The novel became an immediate best-seller, with Sewell dying just five months after its publication but having lived long enough to see her only novel become a success. With fifty million copies sold, Black Beauty is one of the best-selling books of all time.
The author: Anna Sewell (30 March 1820 – 25 April 1878) was an English novelist. She is well known as the author of the 1877 novel Black Beauty, which is now considered one of the top ten best-selling novels for children ever written, although it was intended at the time for an adult audience.
The illustrator: 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.