Shepard, E.H.

4to (315 x 242mm.), NUMBER 121 OF 150 COPIES SIGNED BY THE ARTIST, seven colour plates (of which one is a double-page), introduction by A.A. Milne, original cloth-backed decorated boards with paper lettering piece, dust-jacket, largely unopened, some light browning and occasional spotting, extremities of dust-jacket very slightly frayed and with adhesive tape repairs on reverse

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Milne writes in his introduction that the artist "...needs no introduction at my hands. Anybody who has heard of me has certainly heard of Shepard. Indeed our names have been associated on so many title pages that I am beginning to wonder which of us is which..."

This collection gathers together many of E.H. Shepard's contributions to Punch.