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E.H. Shepard and A.A. Milne "Six Drawings by E.H. Shepard, Illustrating Poems from When We Were Very Young by A.A. Milne". London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, [1925] Six lithograph proofs, each signed by the author and illustrator in pencil, each marked in pencil "Proof", titles comprising: i) "Teddy Bear" (45.5 x 33.2cm); ii) "The King's Breakfast" (50.8 x 39.8cm), faint horizontal mark through middle; iii) "Lines and Squares" (35.7 x 27cm), slight creasing at top edge; iv) "Vespers" (35.2 x 22.5cm); v) "Hoppity" (32 x 25.3cm); vi) "Happiness" (37 x 22.8cm), creased at top left corner; slightly browned; mounted on cardboard, housed in original cardboard portfolio with publisher's labels, portfolio soiled and rubbed at edges The six best loved and most enduring of all the verses published in When We Were Very Young in 1924. These broadsides were probably published between 1924 and 1925, when there was an exhibition of Shepard's drawings from the book. Two illustrations for "Lines and Squares" appeared in Punch and also on this broadside but not in the published book version, due to lack of space: the bear wearing a napkin and with a fat stomach, having just eaten a man. PROVENANCE: Bought from Alwin J. Scheuer (d. 1934), prominent rare book dealer in New York; by descent from the family of Henry Herrman

View 1 of Lot 78: E.H. Shepard and A.A. Milne | Suite of six lithographs from When We Were Very Young, [1925]

e.h. shepard and a.a. milne | suite of six lithographs from when we were very young, [1925]

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a> of The House At Pooh Corner by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=A.A.+Milne&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A.A. Milne</a>, <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Type=Signed%2520and%2520Inscribed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">signed</a> by the illustrator <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=E.H.+Shepard&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">E.H. Shepard</a>, with an additional signed letter tipped in.<ul><li>A.A. Milne (English).</li><li>E.H. Shepard (English).</li><li>London: Methuen &amp; Co. Ltd., 1928.</li><li>Signed by the illustrator E. H. Shepard on the title page.</li><li>Bound in the publisher's original gilt stamped pink cloth, pictorial pastedowns and endpapers, top edge gilt.</li></ul> Tipped to the verso of the front endleaf is a one page signed letter by Shepard which reads: "28 November: 57Dear Mrs. McCreedy,I have heard from Miss George of the Oxford University Press that you are staying in the neighborhood. It will give great pleasure to my wife and to myself if you will come and see us. I would like to suggest Dec. 17th Tuesday, at 4 oclock, If your husband and daughter are able to come as well we shall bt most pleased,Yours SincerelyErnest H. Shepard"

The House At Pooh Corner | First Edition Signed by the Illustrator

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a> of The House At Pooh Corner, <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Type=Signed%2520and%2520Inscribed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">signed</a> by the illustrator.<ul><li>A.A. Milne (English).</li><li>Illustrated by E.H. Shephard.</li><li>London: Methuen &amp; Co. Ltd., 1928.</li><li>Signed by the illustrator E. H. Shepard on the title page.</li><li>Bound in the publisher's original gilt stamped pink cloth, pictorial pastedowns and endpapers, top edge gilt, with the original dust jacket.</li></ul>

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