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From the Library of Christian Heuer

Kipling, A Song of the English, signed

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July 9, 02:56 PM GTNN

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From the Library of Christian Heuer


KIPLING, RUDYARD

A Song of the English...Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson. Hodder & Stoughton, [1909]


4to, first separate edition, AUTOGRAPH EDITION DE LUXE, number 28 of 50 copies signed by the author, hand-made paper, title printed in red and black, coloured frontispiece, 30 coloured plates within coloured borders, mounted, and numerous illustrations in the text, by Heath Robinson, original pictorial pigskin gilt with design by Heath Robinson, top edge gilt, others uncut, lower hinge slightly fragile, minor offsetting to endpapers, edges of binding slightly worn


THE AUTOGRAPH EDITION DE LUXE OF THE FIRST SEPARATE EDITION OF KIPLING'S POEM, produced for the Christmas season of 1909. It had first been collects ed in The Seven Seas (1896)


LITERATURE:

Richards A229 (de luxe issue)



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