3 works, small quarto. Original full stiff vellum with yapp edges, titles to front covers gilt. Winnie-the-Pooh in a yellow cloth chemise and yellow morocco slipcase; Now we are Six in a dark red cloth chemise and matching slipcase; The House at Pooh Corner in a pale red cloth chemise and matching slipcase. Illustrated throughout by E. H. Shepard. Faint blemishes to front cover of Now We Are Six. An exceptional set.
Signed extra-limited editions. Each volume is one of 20 large paper copies printed on Japanese vellum and bound in vellum, signed by both the author and the illustrator—the most luxurious and exclusive issue of the various formats done for the first editions of Milne’s Pooh books. Winnie-the-Pooh is no. 12; Now We Are Six is no. 15; and The House of Pooh Corner no. 19. There was no equivalent issue of the first book in the series, When We Were Very Young (1924), as the magnitude of its success had not been anticipated, so this constitutes a complete set of the Pooh books in this format.
