Lot Essay
This drawing was also used on the dust-jacket for a copy of the first edition. See lot 76.
Details
Ernest Howard Shepard (1879-1976)
"I've a train Upstairs,
With a brake
Which I make
From a string"
pen and blue ink on card, unframed
2¾ x 2in. (7 x 5cm.)
"I've a train Upstairs,
With a brake
Which I make
From a string"
pen and blue ink on card, unframed
2¾ x 2in. (7 x 5cm.)
Literature
The Engineer published in Now We Are Six by A.A. Milne, Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1927, P. 42.