Lot Essay
Original illustrations for K.Grahame Dream Days, London, 1930, pp.81, 98 and 103.
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"This was not such a bad sort of house after all"
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Ernest Howard Shepard (1879-1976)
"This was not such a bad sort of house after all"
inscribed '"This is not such a bad/sort of house after all"/DREAM DAYS/Ernest H.Shepard/Long Meadow/Longdown/Guildford' (on the reverse)
pencil and pen and black ink, unframed
14½ x 10½in. (37 x 26.6cm.)
and two unframed pen and ink illustrations, "I reached the quarter-deck and cut down the pirate chief" and "So we met in my cabin" by the same hand (3)
"This was not such a bad sort of house after all"
inscribed '"This is not such a bad/sort of house after all"/DREAM DAYS/Ernest H.Shepard/Long Meadow/Longdown/Guildford' (on the reverse)
pencil and pen and black ink, unframed
14½ x 10½in. (37 x 26.6cm.)
and two unframed pen and ink illustrations, "I reached the quarter-deck and cut down the pirate chief" and "So we met in my cabin" by the same hand (3)
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