Second edition. December 1924. The first edition was published three weeks earlier in a trade edition of only 100 copies for the general public. x, [2], 99, [1] printed pages. Profusely illustrated throughout with Shepard's charming and humorous vignette drawings. Top edges gilt. Endpapers decorated with Shepard vignettes; some offsetting. Contemporary ink ownership inscription on blank preliminary page, dated Christmas 1924. Provenance: Phyl Sydney.
130 x 195 mm. Original Navy blue cloth; gilt titling on spine; gilt vignette embossed images of three of the poems including Christopher Robin, on front cover. Spine with some rubbing to head and tail of spine and along upper hinge, with some fading; corners a trifle bumped.
On holiday in Wales in August 1923, Milne took himself away from the others and wrote poetry forthe next eleven days. Over the next few months moreverses were added, that werwe eventually collected for publication in 1924 under the title When We Were Young. It was an instant bestseller. #5555