1956 Beautiful binding - When We Were Very Young by A. A. Milne & Ernest H. Shepard.

Author: A. A. Milne with decorations by Ernest H. Shepard.
Title: When We Were Very Young.
Publisher: London, Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1956.
Language: Text in English.
Size: 7 "X 5 ".
Pages: x-99 pages
Binding: Attractive and very good quarter morocco leather binding over marbled boards (hinges fine, gilt decorations bright, spine slightly sunned - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover. Upper edge gilt.
Content: Near fine content (bright, tight and clean - as shown). 
Illustrations: Beautifully illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard.

The book: Attractively bound edition of When We Were Very Young -- a best-selling book of poetry by A. A. Milne. It was first published in 1924 and illustrated by E. H. Shepard. Several of the verses were set to music by Harold Fraser-Simson. The book begins with an introduction entitled "Just Before We Begin", which, in part, tells readers to imagine for themselves who the narrator is, and that it might be Christopher Robin. The 38th poem in the book, "Teddy Bear", which originally appeared in Punch magazine in February 1924, was the first appearance of the famous character Winnie-the-Pooh, first named "Mr. Edward Bear" by Christopher Robin Milne. In one of the illustrations of "Teddy Bear", Winnie-the-Pooh is shown wearing a shirt which was later colored red when reproduced on a recording produced by Stephen Slesinger. 

The author: Alan Alexander Milne (18 January 1882 – 31 January 1956) was an English author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh and for various children's poems. Milne was a noted writer, primarily as a playwright, before the huge success of Pooh overshadowed all his previous work.