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Bonhams To Sell Original Illustrations For Winnie-The-Pooh And Wind In The Willows Children's Stories
http://www.bonhams.com/books
 E.H.
Shepard is one of children’s literature’s most famous illustrators
and Bonhams is delighted to present for sale a superb selection of his works on
4 November – direct from his family. The auction in New Bond Street will
include an original drawing of Winnie-the-Pooh (£15,000-20,000) and a first
sketch for Wind in the Willows (£7,000-10,000).
The large oval pencil drawing of Pooh bear reaching his paw into a honey pot,
while Tigger and Piglet sit around a kitchen table is an enlarged and expanded
version of the illustration “Tiggers don’t like honey” used
in The House at Pooh Corner.
The first sketch for Kenneth Grahame’s Wind in the Willows depicts the lovable
animal friends Rat and Mole lounging with a picnic on the banks of the river.
The caption in the published book is “Now pitch in, old fellow! And the
Mole was indeed very glad to obey”.
Other Shepard illustrations to be sold by Bonhams include two pencil sketches
for A.A. Milne’s famous poem Buckingham Palace, which appeared in When We
Were Very Young, first published in 1924. One sketch shows Christopher Robin saluting
a palace guard; the other depicts him holding hands with Alice.
The collection, which also encompasses sketches and studies for a number of cartoons
from the political magazine Punch, will be sold on behalf of descendents of E.V.
Knox and Mary Shepard, daughter of Ernest H. Shepard. E.V. Knox (1881-1971) had
a long association with Punch, contributing articles from 1905 onwards and eventually
becoming editor in 1932. In 1937, he married Mary Shepard, best known for her
illustrations to P.L. Travers Mary Poppins.
For more information regarding Bonhams’ Sale of Printed Books, Maps, Manuscripts
and Photographs featuring the E H Shepard Collection, please go to www.bonhams.com/books
For further press information and images please contact: Josephine Olley on +44
(0)207 468 8229 or email: press@bonhams.com
Bonhams, founded in 1793, is one of the world's oldest and largest auctioneers
of fine art and antiques. The present company was formed by the merger in November
2001 of Bonhams & Brooks and Phillips Son and Neale UK. In August 2002, the
company acquired Butterfields, the principal firm of auctioneers on the West Coast
of America and in August 2003, Goodmans, a leading Australian fine art and antiques
auctioneer with salerooms in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide, joined the Bonhams
Group of Companies. Today, Bonhams offers more sales than any of its rivals, through
two major salerooms in London: New Bond Street, and Knightsbridge, and a further
seven throughout the UK. Sales are also held in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New
York and Boston in the USA; and Australia, Canada, Dubai, France, Hong Kong, Monaco
and Switzerland . Bonhams has a worldwide network of offices and regional representatives
in 25 countries offering sales advice and valuation services in 57 specialist
areas. For a full listing of upcoming sales, plus details of Bonhams specialist
departments, go to www.bonhams.com
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