Adam's AT HOME AUCTION February 23rd 2020

172 At Home 23 rd February 2020 552 DICKENS, CHARLES, ILLUSTRATED BY CECIL ALDIN The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club Published by Chapman & Hall/Lawrence & Jellicoe, London 1910, two vols., first edition (limited edition of the first edition of 250 copies, parchment bound), in original title-blocked pictorial cloth, size quarto, 24 colour illustrations plus numerous black and white illustrations in text, uniquely illustrated with an original drawing of Mr. Pickwick in coloured pencils, signed and dated Cecil Aldin 1911, vol. 1 frontispiece Provenance: An undated letter from J.H. Williams, on ‘Crown Solicitor’s Office, Sligo’ embossed notepaper, states that the writer encountered Cecil Aldin on a trip from Cairo who duly illustrated and signed the frontispiece with his drawing of Mr. Pickwick. The books were then gifted by Williams to Arthur Jackson who was a member of the Boz Club. € 600 - 1,000 553 HERON, ROY Cecil Aldin, The Story of a Sporting Artist Published by Webb & Bower, Exeter, 1981 Includes a comprehensive bibliography of all Aldin’s printed works with a listing of his publishers € 50 - 70