| Description | Title page is signed "Ernest H. Shepard". Beneath the signature is the residue from tape used to attach a slip of paper inscribd "Yours Ever Kipper" (now detached from page).
The first page is inscribed in ink "Beatrice M Thornhill for Diana Daglesh Christmas 1961" and beneath, in pencil "Breakwater 96 Sea Road [?] on Sea".
Fixed to the inside back cover is a book review from Punch, 6 December 1961, by John Durrant, and a black and white photograph captioned "Florence & Addie Chaplin" showing two women in medieval dress posed on an external staircase.
Loose items:
- black and white photograph showing float and inscribed on front "Mafeking May 19 1900 page 151" and on reverse: "page 151 May 19 1900 Bust of Baden Powell done by S K Art Students Mafeking Day."
- black and white portait photograph, inscribed (Addie) Adrienne Chaplin.
- newspaper clipping: review of Drawn from Life, titled "A Period Peepshow", Church Times Jan 1962
- magazine article "The Man Who Drew Pooh", Brenda Jones [The Sunday Times, 1969]
Label on inside front cover: "K. J. Bredon's Bookshop, 10 East Street, Brighton". |