MILNE, Alan Alexander (1882–1956); SHEPARD, Ernest Howard (1879–1976). When We Were Very Young. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1924. [With:] Winnie-the-Pooh. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1926. [With:] Now We Are Six. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1927. [With:] The House at Pooh Corner. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1928.

Complete set of Winnie-the-Pooh first editions, limited issue, in dust-jackets, each one of 350 copies signed by Milne and Shephard and printed on hand-made paper.

Four volumes, quarto (220 × 173mm). Illustrations by Shepard, including fold-out map. Half-titles, each signed and numbered on limitation page (no. 21 of 100; no. 117 of 350; no. 40 of 200; no. 288 of 350), publisher’s advertisement for When We Were Very Young laid in (occasional separation between quires, small stain in pp. 30 and 31 in Winnie-the-Pooh). Original quarter cloth and laid paper over paper boards, printed labels on upper covers; blue or white wove paper dust-jackets, titling in blue on upper panels and backstrips (lightly dust-soiled, few neat tears, backstrips toned, few light stains, offsetting on endleaves from dust-jacket); housed in pairs in two custom blue morocco clam-shell boxes tooled in gold with designs after Shepard.