Ernest H. Shepard — Drawn from Memory

London, Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1957. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of this biographical sketch of the author's childhood with illustrations throughout. First edition. Illustrated with gravure frontispiece and over one hundred in-text images. A charming collection of memories from the author's childhood, delightfully describing his life with his parents and siblings at No. 10 Kent Terrace, in St. John's Wood, London. Written and illustrated by Ernest Howard Shepard, an English artist and book illustrator best known for his illustrations of the anthropomorphic animal and soft toy characters in The Wind in the Willows and Winnie-the-Pooh. In the original green cloth binding. Externally, very smart with light shelf wear to the extremities. Original unclipped dust wrapper is also smart with light shelf wear and sunning to the spine. The odd small mark to the board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small handling mark. Minor age toning to the endpapers. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Ernest H. Shepard. Very Good Indeed/Very Good.