When we Were Very Young & Now We Are Six. With Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. London: Methuen Children’s Books, 1989. First Edition Thus. Publisher’s blue cloth boards pictorially blocked in silver, pictorial dust-jacket, and endpapers. A fine bright copy.

First published with black and white illustrations by Ernest Shepard in 1924 & 1927. Now appearing for the first time with his delightful drawings in colour by Mark Burgess, who’s sensitive colouring has brought new life to these well known decorations to Milline’s poems.

From their first appearance these two books of poems quickly became establishes as nursery favourites and since have been reprinted countless times.