Author: MORTON J.B.
Title: Who's Who in the Zoo. Verses by J.B. Morton. Pictures by Cecil Aldin.
Description: Eyre & Spottiswoode,, 1935. 4to., Second Edition, with a fine coloured frontispiece, 3 coloured plates, and 35 full-page line illustrations and many smaller sketches in the text; cloth, covers minimally age-soiled else a remarkably bright, clean copy with virtually no trace of the usual spotting. The first edition was published in 1933. Delightful illustrations (as always with Aldin) accompany Morton's humorous verses. Aldin was responsible for the coloured plates, the full-page line illustrations and all but nine of the smaller sketches (seven are by Trist and two by Sheringham). Heron, p.196 (recording the first edition).

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