Beschreibung:

Milne (A. A., and Shepard, Ernest H.). A collection of six prints, by Ernest H. Shepard 1928, depicting incidents in the lives of Christopher Robin and Winnie the Pooh, extracted from Home Chat magazines and mounted into a blank scrapbook, front pastedown with paper flap enclosing a mounted illustration of Pooh and Piglet (reading 'Now we are Six'), the paper flap signed by both author and illustrator, 2nd print slightly ink speckled (mainly to lower margin), rear endpapers with 2 futher mounted illustrations, of Christopher Robin reading (stained with surface loss), and of A. A. Milne, limp covers wrapped in contemporary patterned paper, extremities rubbed with a little wear, spine somewhat toned, front cover with 2cm closed tear at fore-edge, slim 4to (Qty: 1) Provenance: from the library of P. T. R. Gillette, sold at auction by Sothebys, February 10th 1959. A unique item, compiled by hand and signed by both A. A. Milne and Ernest H. Shepard The six prints are taken from issues of the Home Chat magazine published in a series around October 1928. The prints are: Christopher Robin has a Little Something at Eleven; What Christopher Robin does in the Mornings; Christopher Robin gives Extract of Malt all round; Christopher Robin's Green Braces; Christopher Robin at the Enchanted Place; Christopher Robin organises an "Expotition". Ernest H. Shepard produced these prints exclusively for the magazine and they apparently never appeared in any of the 'Pooh' books.