Description: PRINTS BOOKS PHOTOGRAPHS MANUSCRIPTS CURIOSITIES - DOG SUFFERING FROM ANCESTRAL ANGST - WITH WONDERFUL CECIL ALDIN ILLUSTRATIONS -[ill.] ALDIN (Cecil Charles Windsor, British artist and illustrator best known for his paintings and sketches of animals, sports, and rural life, 1870-1935); EMANUEL (Walter, English satirist and author, of Jewish heritage, 1869-1915).The dog who wasn't what he thought he was. (London): Raphael Tuck & Sons, n.d. [circa 1914]. Edition unstated. Colour lithographic frontispiece, t/p, [1], followed by 46 leaves, comprised of full-page colour lithographic plates and text pages (with b/w vignettes). Tan cloth, colour decorated. Size: 4to (26.8cm x 21.8cm).Very Good to Good condition. Some edge wear and minor fraying of cloth at corners. Spine rather dulled. Light toning and minor marking to boards. Inner hinges have cracked but binding still pretty solid. Minor scattered handling marks to pages, and a few small stains here are there. But pages and plates generally clean, without any child creasing or scribbling. Please ask if you require a more detailed condition report, or view gallery images closely.A collectable example of this charming children's book about a dog suffering from something of an identity crisis, illustrated by Victorian / Edwardian 'dog tsar' (my term) Cecil Aldin. key words:
Price: 165 GBP
Location: Ascot
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Binding: Hardback
Place of Publication: London
Non-Fiction Subject: Children's & Young Adults
Publisher: Raphael Tuck & Sons
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1914
Language: English
Illustrator: Cecil Aldin
Special Attributes: Illustrated
Fiction Subject: Short Stories & Anthologies
Original/Reproduction: Original
Author: Walter Emanuel
Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
