jacket. Housed in a custom green cloth-backed folding box. Illustrated throughout by E. H. Shepard, folding map at end. Minor browning to endpapers, two adhesive tape marks and abrasions to preliminary blank, largely unopened, a fine copy. Dust jacket toned, minor adhesive tape repairs to reverse, extremities rubbed, some soiling, a good copy of an unclipped jacket. £12,500 [157029] 41 GREENAWAY, Kate. “What is Tommy running for”. 1879 Original artwork for the artist’s first children’s picture book The two original drawings published within Under the Window in 1879, one of the earliest designed picture books and a phenomenal publishing success. The drawings accompany the two stanza verse “What is Tommy running for” and appear on page 47. As noted by Houfe, “Greenaway’s style had its effects on clothing and other accessories as well as on book illustration where it spawned a great number of copyists”. Greenaway’s most influential supporter was John Ruskin who frequently lavished extravagant praise. One of the artist’s contemporaries, Walter Crane, noted that “the grace and charm of her children and young girls were quickly recognised, and her treatment of quaint early nineteenth-century costume, prim gardens, and the childlike spirit of her designs in an old-world atmosphere, though touched with conscious modern ‘aestheticism’, captivated the public in a remarkable way”. Two original drawings (66 × 56 mm and 71 × 44 mm) on card (80 × 75 mm and 81 × 79 mm), ink and watercolour, unsigned, mounted with text of poem on mount, framed, and glazed (framed size 339 × 319 mm). Some light toning; fine and vibrant. ¶ Michael Patrick Hearn, “Mr Ruskin and Miss Greenaway”, Children’s Literature , 1980; Simon Houfe, 19th Century British Book Illustrators and Caricaturists , 1998. £3,000 [154976]
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Grahame’s children’s classic was originally published in 1908 with only a frontispiece for an illustration. Although the work was subsequently published with illustrations by several artists, it was E. H. Shepard who brought the narrative to life with his evocative line drawings in 1931. Well-known for his illustrations of A. A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh series, Shepard was asked to illustrate a new edition, following Milne’s popular adaptation of the book for the stage as Toad of Toad Hall. In 1931 Shepard visited Grahame at his house in Pangbourne to make sketches, and at their first meeting Grahame said to him, “I love these little people, be kind to them”. Small quarto. Original green cloth-backed grey paper-covered boards, paper spine label lettered in black, edges untrimmed. With dust
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39 GRAHAME, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1908 One of the great rarities of children’s literature with the first issue dust jacket First edition, first impression, with the extremely rare first issue jacket (with the first publication price of 6/- on the front panel). “The joy and self-confidence in so much of Grahame’s text . . . ensured the book’s place as a children’s classic” (Grolier). In dust jacket, this is one of the great rarities of 20th- century literature and a keystone book in any collection of children’s literature. In the past 45 years there have only been nine copies (including this) in first issue jackets sold at auction where they have commanded premium prices. Later issue dust jackets would show a price of 7/6 on the front panel. This copy includes a single publisher’s advertisement leaf which is loosely inserted. Octavo. Original green cloth, lettering and decorations on spine and front cover in gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Publisher’s advertisement leaf loosely inserted. With dust jacket printed in dark green. Housed in custom green full morocco folding box. Black and white frontispiece by Graham Robertson. Bookplate of I. D. Margary on front pastedown, likely that of Ivan Donald Margary (1896–1976), an authority on Roman roads and author of Roman Roads in Britain (1955). Extremities slightly rubbed with one corner slightly bumped, some internal foxing and browning; a near-fine and remarkably crisp copy.
Dust jacket with professional restoration to spine, edges, and joints, including some expert facsimile to spine. ¶ Grolier, Children’s 100 , 61. £60,000 [152551] 40 SHEPARD, Ernest H. (illus.); GRAHAME, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. London: Methuen & Co., 1931 Signed by both author and illustrator Signed limited edition, number 192 of 200 large paper copies signed by both Grahame and Shepard, printed on handmade paper.
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