{d.m.} ronald searle

D.M.*
Ronald Searle

{obits: guardian; telegraph} 

A 1975 Searle postcard from flickr

Searle loved books and cats,
which places him very high up in my Pantheon.

 

On my family's bookshelves we have - as well as a handful of St Trinian's and the Molesworth (the latter written by Geoffrey Willans) books - Ronald Searle's Cats (1967; rev. 2005) and the wonderfully crazy Slight Foxed - But Still Desirable (1989), Searle's illustrations of the terminology of antiquarian book catalogues (appropriately, given the context, first editions aren't cheap). There are some images from the book on flickr (and there's an amazon preview).

*Note: "D.M." is a reference to the Manes.