Old Not-Too-Bright and Lilywhite

New York: The Platt & Peck Co, 1915. Boards. Very good +. G.E. SHEPHEARD. [HUMOR] [POETRY/RHYME]. G.E. SHEPHEARD, illustrator. Printed in Great Britain. First edition thus. Part of The Little Wonder Books series. 24mo (5 ½" x 4 3/8"); 85pp; light brown boards, embossed borders and lettering, color pictorial onlay of a man and horse at a window; color pictorial endpapers, ownership in neat ink on front pastedown, bookseller's ticket on ffep; color illustrated frontispiece and 26 additional color plates; small splits at head of spine, rear joint cracked ½" at bottom but holding; very good plus. OCLC records 3 copies but published in London by Ward Lock. The humorous rhyming verse tells the story of a man, Not-Too-Bright, and his horse, Lilywhite. Through thick and thin, the man and horse stay together. "Of Not-Too-Bright and Lilywhite / The tale's now reached its end: / May each of us, when old and grey, / Find such a faithful friend!".