A partly obscured signature and note to the reverse ‘own Guildford’ might suggest that it was Shepard’s personal copy.
Estimate $10,000-15,000.
Coming up for sale at Swann Galleries in New York on December 10 is an original, initialled ink and wash drawing by EH Shepard for a lesser-known work by Kenneth Grahame, Bertie’s Escapade, that was published by Lippincott in the US in 1949.
A partly obscured signature and note to the reverse ‘own Guildford’ might suggest that it was Shepard’s personal copy.
Estimate $10,000-15,000.