Lucas Edward Verrall Shepard Ernest (3 results)

Pictorial Boards. Condition: Good. Shepard, Ernest H. (illustrator). First Edition. First edition. 95, [1] pp. Pictorial boards with a paper title-label and red cloth spine. Illustrated by Ernest H. Shephard, including the endpapers. Rubbing to extremities and markings to boards. Some tears to edges of pp. 44 and 45. Internally in VG condition. 8vo.

Condition: Good. First Edition. G: in Good condition without dust jacket. Cover rubbed. 220mm x 180mm (9" x 7"). 95pp. Illustrated hardback board cover with pink cloth spine.

1p., 4to. In good condition, lightly aged. Addressed in type to 'My dear Shepard,' but with the last word corrected in autograph to 'Ernest'. He has now 'made sufficient progress with Monmouthshire' to be able to give Shephard 'a line': 'The first two verses bear upon the Wye valley and the Usk valley, of which Tintern is the best symbol. The last verse states that should King Arthur return to set up his table once more, he would be able to make a rapid fortune by providing tea, | With Guinevere and Lancelot | Alert to keep the water hot.' He suggests that 'the lower part of the page shows King Arthur and his knights waiting on a crowd of trippers, and in the upper part you have Tintern, and perhaps a winding road crowded with cars and chars-à-banc, with a background of wooded mountain scenery.' He concludes by stating that he has 'asked Mr. Ashley Cooper, the cricket collector', to let Shepard 'have the three Graces', with the assurance that he will return them 'safely and quickly'. The poem appeared in Punch in the same year.