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Cecil Charles Windsor Aldin

Male : Book Illustrator, esp of comic and sporting scenes. Published his first drawing in The Graphic in 1891
Nationality : English Place of Birth : Slough

Date of Birth : 1870 Date of Death : 1935 Age : 65

Pseudonyms : Cecil Aldin

Education : Eastbourne College & S Kensington Sch of Art
CECIL ALDIN
1894-1900
Spot, An Autobiography
(1894 Houlston)
Two Well-Worn Shoe Stories
(1899 Sands) - with John Hassall
A Sporting Garland
(c1900)

1901-1905
Faithful Friends
(1902 Blackie) - includes 2 illus by Arthur Rackham
The House Annual
(1902 Gale & Polden)
The Young Folks Birthday Book
(1902 Hills)
A Gay Dog
(1905 Heinemann)

1906-1910
The Happy Annual
(1907 Heinemann) - with John Hassall
Farm Friends for Little Folk
(1908 Blackie) - with Arthur Rackham et al
The Playtime Picture Books
(1909 Lawrence & Jellicoe)
Pussy and Her Ways
(1909 Henry Frowde/Hodder & Stoughton)
Doggie and His Ways
(1909 Henry Frowde/Hodder & Stoughton)
The Black Puppy Book
(1909 Henry Frowde/Hodder & Stoughton)
The White Puppy Book
(1909 Henry Frowde/Hodder & Stoughton)
The White Kitten Book
(1909 Henry Frowde/Hodder & Stoughton)
Pickles, A Puppy Dog's Tale
(1909 Henry Frowde/Hodder & Stoughton)
Offered in 1991 for £300
Rough & Tumble
(1909 Henry Frowde/Hodder & Stoughton)
The Widow
(1909 Heinemann)
Field Babies
(1910 Henry Frowde/Hodder & Stoughton)
The Twins
(1910 Henry Frowde/Hodder & Stoughton)
Offered in 1991 for £240
The Red Puppy Book
(1910 Henry Frowde/Hodder & Stoughton)
My Pets & Their Ways
(1910 Henry Frowde/Hodder & Stoughton)
My Book of Doggies : Stories & Pictures for Little Folk
(1910 Blackie) - with Rackham et al

1911-1915
Farmyard Puppies
(1911 Henry Frowde/Hodder & Stoughton)
Merry and Bright
(1911 Henry Frowde/Hodder & Stoughton)
Offered in 1991 for £320
Mac : A Story of a Dog
(1912 Henry Frowde/Hodder & Stoughton)
The Mongrel Puppy Book
(1912 Henry Frowde/Hodder & Stoughton)
The Merry Puppy Book
(1913 Milford)
The Bobtail Puppy Book
(1913 Milford)
The Cecil Aldin Painting Books
(1915 Lawrence & Jellicoe)

1916-1920
The Merry Party
(1918 Humphrey Milford)
Jorrocks on 'unting
(1919 Heinemann)
Bunnyborough
(1919 Humphrey Milford) (1946 Eyre & Spottiswoode)
Zoo Babies
(1919 Frowde, Hodder & Stoughton)
The Great Adventure
(1920 H Milford)
Cecil Aldin Letter Books
(1920 H Milford)

1921-1930
Old Inns
(1921 Heinemann) - 380 signed
Us
(1922 H Milford)
Old Manor Houses
(1923 Heinemann)
Cathedral and Abbey Churches of England
(1924 Eyre & Spottiswoode)
Ratcatcher to Scarlet
(1926)
Dogs of Character
(1927 Eyre & Spottiswoode)
Romance of the Road
(1928)
Sleeping Partners : A Series of Episodes
(1929 Eyre & Spottiswoode)
An Artist's Models
(1930 Witherby) - 310 signed

1931 Onwards
Mrs Tickler's Caravan
(1931 Eyre & Spottiswoode) - with Pat Wood
The Cecil Aldin Book
(1932 E & S)
The Bunch Book
(1932 Eyre & Spottiswoode)
Scarlet to M.F.H.
(1933 E & S)
Who's Who in the Zoo
(1933 E & S)
Time I Was Dead
(1934 Eyre & Spottiswoode)
Just Among Friends , Pages from My Sketchbook
(1934)
Exmoor : The Riding Playground of England
(1935 Witherby)
Just Among Friends
(1935 E & S)
How to Draw Dogs
(1935 John Lane, Bodley Head)
Hunting Scenes
(1936)
Ratcatcher to Scarlet
(c1947 E & S)
Roads and Vagabonds
(nd E & S)

Books illustrated by Aldin
ASHMORE, Marion : Lost Stolen or Strayed
(1931 Eyre & Spottiswoode)
BINGHAM, Clifton : Cecil Aldin's Rag Book, The Animals' School Treat
(1913 Dean Rag Book)
BUCKLAND, James : Two Little Runaways
(1898 Longman)
BYRON, May : Farm Babies
(1911 Henry Frowde/Hodder & Stoughton)
Cecil Aldin's Happy Family
(1912 Henry Frowde/Hodder & Stoughton)
Cecil Aldin's Merry Party
(1913 Henry Frowde/Hodder & Stoughton)
Jack and Jill
(1914 Henry Frowde/Hodder & Stoughton)
Animal Revels
(c1914 Henry Frowde/Hodder & Stoughton)
Animal Frolics
(1914 Henry Frowde/Hodder & Stoughton)
CHALMERS, Patrick R : A Dozen Dogs or So
(1927 Eyre & Spottiswoode)
Forty Fine Ladies
(1930 Eyre & Spottiswoode)
Dogs of Every Day
(1933 E & S)
The Last Muster
(1939)
DAVIDSON, Gladys : Gyp's Hour of Bliss
(1919 Collins)
DICKENS, Charles : The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
(1910 Chapman & Hall/Lawrence & Jellicoe) - 2 vols
DOUGLAS, James : The Bunch Book
(1932 Eyre & Spottiswoode)
EMANUEL, Walter : A Dog Day, or the Angel in the House
(1902 Heinemann 5/-)
Offered for £205 in 1998
The Snob : Some Episodes in a Mis-spent Youth
(1904 Lawrence & Bullen
A Conceited Puppy : Some Incidents in the Life of a Gay Dog (1904 Dutton NY)
The Zoo - A Scamper
(1904 Alston Rivers)
A Gay Dog : The Story of a Foolish Year
(1905 Heinemann)
The Dogs of War
(1906 Bradbury, Agnew)
The Dog Who Wasn't what he Thought He Was
(1914 Raphael Tuck)
Offered for £205 in 1998
FARROW, G E : Zoo Babies
(1910 Frowde/Hodder & Stoughton)
FIFE, Duncan : Scarlet Blue and Green
(1932 Macmillan)
FLEURON, Svend : Flax, Police Dog
(1931 Eyre & Spottiswoode)
Wild Horses of Iceland
(1933)
HARE, Kenneth : Road and Vagabonds
(c1930)
HEIBERG, Neils : White-Ear & Peter - The Story of a Fox & a Fox-Terrier
(1912 Macmillan)
HELME, Eleanor E & PAUL, Nance : Jerry, The Story of an Exmoor Pony
(1930 Eyre & Spottiswoode)
HOPE, William Edward Stanton : Smugglers Gallows
(1936 Eyre & Spottiswoode)
HUTCHINSON, Henry : Prehistoric Man and Beast
(1896)
IRVING, Washington : Old Christmas
(1908 Hodder & Stoughton)
Bachelors and Bachelors' Confessions
(1909)
An Old Fashioned Christmas Eve
(1910 Hodder & Stoughton)
An Old Fashioned Christmas Day
(1910 Hodder & Stoughton)
Rev John ISABELL : Wonderland Wonders
(1895 Home Words) - with Louis Wain
KIPLING, Rudyard : His Apologies
(1932 Doubleday Doran US)
MAETERLINCK, Maurice : My Dog
(1913 Allen)
MASEFIELD, John : Right Royal
(1922 Heinemann)
MORTON, J B : Who's Who in the Zoo
(1933 Eyre)
NURSE, Winifred H : Berkshire Vale
(1927 Blackwell)
OUIDA : Mouflou
(1915 T C & E C Jack)
PRAED, Winthrop M : Everyday Characters
(1896)
P ROBINSON : Bubble & Squeak
(1902 Isbister)
SEWELL, Anna : Black Beauty
(1912 Jarrold)
SPURR, Harry A : A Cockney in Arcadia
(1899) - with John Hassall
STEELE, Sir R : The Perverse Widow
(1909)
The Henpecked Man
(1909)
SURTEES, R S : Jorrocks on 'unting
(1909)
Handley Cross
(1912)
TRIST, Sidney : The Underdog
(1913 Animals' Guardian)
VICKERMAN, John : Hotspur the Beagle
(1934 Constable)
WAYLETT, Richard : Puppy Tails
(1910 Lawrence & Jellicoe)
Farmyard Frolics
(c1915 Lawrence & Jellicoe)
Jock and Some Others
(1916 Gale & Polden)

PERIODICALS
Animal World, Black & White, The Boy's Own Paper, The Captain, Cassell's Family Magazine,
The English Illustrated Magazine, The Gentlewoman, Good Words, The Graphic, Happy Annual,
The Illustrated London News, Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, The Lady's Pictorial,
Land and Water Illustrated, The Ludgate Monthly, The Pall Mall Budget, The Pall Mall Magazine,
Pearson's Magazine, The Poster, Printer's Pie, Punch, The Queen, The Royal Magazine,
The Sketch, The Sphere, The Windsor Magazine

READING
Cecil Aldin : Time I Was Dead
(1934 Eyre & Spottiswoode)
Roy Heron : Cecil Aldin - The Story of a Sporting Artist
(1981 Webb & Bower)