SEARLE RONALD: (1920-2011) English artist, satirical cartoonist & illustrator, the creator of St. Trinian's School. A signed and inscribed unbound copy of Forty Drawings by Ronald Searle, with an introduction by Frank Kendon, First Edition published by the University Press, Cambridge, 1946, being Searle's first book and featuring forty monochrome plates of drawings made by Searle whilst a Prisoner of War in Singapore during World War II and selected from his first exhibition at the Cambridge School of Art in December 1945. Signed and inscribed by Searle in black ink to the preliminary blank, 'For my co-jailbird and scenery daubing friend John Beckerley, Ronald Searle', and dated January 1947 in his hand. Lacking the covers and paper wrappers and with a few pages loose. Some age wear, light creasing, minor foxing and a few small tears, otherwise about G