The Wind in the Willows. Illustrated By E.H. Sheppard. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1971. First Edition Thus. Publishers tan cloth boards with blind stamped illustration of Toad smoking a cigar to front board, spine lettered in gilt; original pictorial dust jacket. A fine bright copy.

First edition to feature Sheppard’s coloured illustrations.

Originally published in 1931, Shepard coloured his own line drawings for this edition. In the same year he also issued coloured versions of the Winnie the Pooh books by A. A. Milne.