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Cecil Aldin
This famous comic illustrator was born in Slough, England in 1870. He learnt his skills at the now famous School of Art in South Kensington, London. Apart from contributing to the "Boy's Own Paper" and the "Oxford Annual", he went on to become a successful sporting artist. He retired to the Sun drenched isle of Majorca, off Spain in 1930 and died five years later. His most sort after book is "Bubble & Squeak" by P Robinson that was published by Isbister back in 1902. His first drawings were published in Graphic in 1891. He also illustrated the original 1893 magazine publications of Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book and later the 1910 edition of Charles Dickens' The Pickwick Papers. A highlight of his career were his drawings for The Bunch Book (1932, about Bunch, a Sealyham Terrier) by James Douglas. He went on to publish a short series of fully illustrated books in 1923 on Old Manor Houses and Old Inn's.
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