E.H. Shepard | Three original illustrations from "Busy", in Now We Are Six, [1927]

E.H. Shepard

Suite of three original illustrations for Now We Are Six, pen and ink drawings on paper, comprising:

i) "...Behind another Elephant who isn't really there...", (139 x 61mm), signed; 

ii) "I think I am a Traveller escaping from a Bear;", (55 x 54mm), unsigned; 

iii) "... I haven't got the muffin things that muffin people sell", (59 x 35mm); "... No, I think I am a Tram.", (55 x 48mm); "... And round about I go;", (38 x 36mm), unsigned; 

mounted together, unframed, very minor browning at edges, extremely faint stain to illustration i

A suite of drawings reproduced in the A.A. Milne book Now We Are Six (Methuen, 1927), from the poem "Busy".

PROVENANCE:

Bought from Alwin J. Scheuer (d. 1934), prominent rare book dealer in New York; by descent from the family of Henry Herrman