equality. Harriet Taylor’s influence on this work was substantial, and acknowledged by Mill. “All that is most striking and profound in what was written by me belongs to my wife, coming from the fund of thought that had been made common to us both by our innumerable conversations and discussions on a topic that filled so large a place in our minds” ( Autobiography , 1873, p. 266). Octavo. Original yellow cloth, spine lettered in gilt, brown endpapers. Skilfully restored at extremities with inner hinges repaired and book block tightened, cloth slightly discoloured, several leaves opened a little roughly. A very good copy. £2,500 [157083] 102 MILNE, A. A. Complete set of the Pooh Books. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1924–28 bound with pictorial morocco onlays First editions of these timeless classics of children’s literature. When We Were Very Young is in the second
state of the first impression with the page number ix present in the preliminaries. These four volumes comprise a full set of the Pooh books and are presented in beautiful bindings by Bayntun (Rivière) of Bath. 4 works, octavo (180 × 115 mm). Bound in red morocco by Bayntun (Rivière), signed on front turn-ins, spine with raised bands and lettered in gilt, front covers with illustrations after E. H. Shepard in coloured onlays, covers with gilt fillet borders, marbled endpapers, gilt edges, gilt turn-ins, original cloth bound in at end together with original pictorial endpapers when issued. Housed in a custom red cloth slipcase. Illustrated throughout by E. H. Shepard. Spines very slightly sunned, minor browning to the top of a few leaves in The House at Pooh Corner , some leaves lightly toned, slipcase rubbed at extremities; a near-fine and attractive set. £15,000 [157435]
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