Original drawing of girl and deer, an illustration for “Peggy and the Pony”

by Helen Sewell

$750 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

Ink and pencil on tissue. 1 vols. 7 x 7-3/4 inches, matted and framed to 15 x 16 inches overall. Two faint diagonal creases, else fine. Mahone, et al, Ilustrators of Children's Books 1744-1945. Item #40587 A charming drawing by Sewell, who started by designing Christmas cards and came to produce “an extraordinary number” of children's books, of which “The Horn Book” remarks, “Most interesting...is her range of

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