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Now we are six

Book
1927 (published)
Artist/Maker
Methuen (publisher)
Milne, Alan Alexander (author)
Shepard, Ernest Howard (illustrator)
Place of origin
London (published)

Printed book with line block illustrations. Bound in olive green calfskin, with gold-tooled decoration to spine and upper board, and double rule fillet tooled in gold on upper board. Decorated endpapers and all edges gilt. Silk ribbon laid in. In box with publisher's title-label.
Inscribed in two hands: Hollings [?], Aug. '39; M.S. Slocum, Pasadena.
x, [2], 103, [1] p. : ill. ; 20 cm.

Object details

Categories
National Art Library
Children & Childhood
Illustration
Books
Object type
Book
TitleNow we are six (published title)
Materials and techniques
Leather bound printed book with line block illustrations
Printing Ink
Paper (Fiber Product)
Leather
Printing
Brief description
Book, Now We Are Six, deluxe edition in green calfskin, by A.A. Milne, illustrated by E.H. Shepard, London: Methuen, 1927. NAL Pressmark: 60.LL.303.
Physical description
Printed book with line block illustrations. Bound in olive green calfskin, with gold-tooled decoration to spine and upper board, and double rule fillet tooled in gold on upper board. Decorated endpapers and all edges gilt. Silk ribbon laid in. In box with publisher's title-label.
Inscribed in two hands: Hollings [?], Aug. '39; M.S. Slocum, Pasadena.
x, [2], 103, [1] p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Gallery label
(09/12/2017 - 08/04/2018)
Treasured Editions

Following the success of When We Were Very Young, Milne’s children’s books became collectors’ items. The owner of one prized set of first editions had them bound in fine decorated leather. Besides the standard cloth-bound copies, you could buy deluxe editions bound in leather and limited editions made in handmade paper or Japanese vellum, signed by the author and artist.
Some rare copies have exquisite pen and ink drawings by Shepard on the title page, probably specially commissioned.

[Group label Winnie-the-Pooh: Exploring a Classic]
Other number
60.LL.303
Collection
National Art Library
Library number
38041000210005

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Record createdJuly 6, 2017
Record URL
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