JUST AMONG FRIENDS. de ALDIN Cecil - 1935.: Pages from my Sketch Books.

London,: Eyre and Spottiswoode Ltd.,, 1935.. In-4 p. (mm. 290x230), tela moderna blu, pp. (8), con 28 tavole su carta distinta color ocra di cui: 12 a colori o con tocchi di colore, 15 in b.n., ciasc. con due o più figure di cani, e 1, al titolo, con un piccolo cane nero, magistralmente illustrati da Cecil Aldin. Raffigurano: Spaniel, Pekinese and Chow - Scotch and West Highlander - Collie, Retriever, Alsatian and Keeshund Puppy - Irish Wolfhounds, West Highlander and Cairn - Bull Terrier, Dalmatians amd Mutt dog - Wiire-haired Terrier, Aberdeen and West Highlanders - Terriers” e tanti altri. "Seconda edizione". Come specifica l'A. “most of these dogs have been inmates of my Studio for a week or more at a time as my models, but many have lived with me for their all too short lives. They are all untouched sketches worked only while my model was sitting and never ‘finished up' afterwards.. These drawings are not pictures - they are not intended to be; but only studies of types and poses, expression or character, which will always convey, to me at any rate, that my friends are still with me in my studio”. Cfr. Benezit,I, p. 173 che dell'artista inglese così precisa: “Cecil Charles Windsor Aldin (1870-1935, aquarelliste de sujets de sport, scènes de genre, dessinateur, illustrateur. Il étudia l'anatomie et la peinture animalière avec le peintre animalier William Frank Calderon à la Kensington Art School.. Il fut aussi l'auteur-illustrateur de nombreux livres pour enfants”.Esemplare molto ben conservato.