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...“What’s interesting,” says senior specialist Dr Philip W Errington, “is that only proof copies were sent out for review, and because the first run was a flop the book was never published.”...
...by Shepard to the vendor’s grandfather....
...Pickwick and Micawber belong to Phiz (Hablot Knight Browne) almost as much as to Dickens, just as Toad and Pooh bluster and mutter according to the drawn lines of EH Shepard....
...Reading about Queen Victoria has been a passion of mine since, as a child, I came across Laurence Housman’s play Happy and Glorious, with its Ernest Shepard illustrations....
...A day earlier, Sotheby’s is selling one of Shepard’s original Winnie-the-Pooh drawings for a record £60,000....
...Shepard, most famous for visualising Winnie the Pooh and friends. Illustrations for the Pooh books often top £30,000 but less celebrated drawings by Shepard can be acquired for under £500....
...Professor David Myddelton David Newlands Eric Nichols Mark Nicholson David C Ord Sara Pearson Lord Pearson of Rannoch Andrew Roberts Roger Scruton Nick Seaton Christopher Shale Richard Sharp Giles Shepard...
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