MILNE, A.A.; Decorations by Ernest H. Shephard.
Winnie-the-Pooh.
“I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen”: FIRST EDITION OF WINNIE-THE-POOH; IN THE PUBLISHER'S DELUXE BINDING
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1926.
* Custom Clamshell Boxes are hand made by the Harcourt Bindery upon request and take approximately 60 days to complete
First edition, deluxe issue of this children's classic. Octavo, original publisher's deluxe binding of full limp calf with gilt decorations to the spine and front panel, all edges gilt, cartographic endpapers, ribbon bound in, illustrated with line drawings by Ernest H. Shepard. John R. Payne provides details of the special binding, noting that "3,000 copies of the first trade impression were printed by 11 September [1926] and ordered bound in red, blue, and green leather by Burn the same day." In very good condition with restoration to the crown and foot of the spine. Neat ownership inscription to the front free pictorial endpaper.
“Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh has been considered a classic of children’s literature almost since its publication” (Cooper & Cooper). In 1925, A.A. Milne purchased “a Sussex farmhouse for use as a weekend and holiday alternative to the family’s London home… [that would] provide the setting for the stories he now started to write about [his son] Christopher’s toys… Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner [its companion volume, published 1928] are, on their own terms, more successful as works written for children than anything else produced during children’s literature’s Golden Age” (Carpenter). “Ernest H. Shepard’s illustrations, modeled after the actual toys, show character and movement in simple line vignettes, which add so much to the books that most people consider them to be inseparable from the texts” (Silvey).
Winnie-the-Pooh.
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