The Fox Meditates by Kipling, Rudyard Edwards, Lionel - 1933-01-01

SOFTBACK PAMPHLET SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: No indication so assumed 1st.* Indicated Copyright: 1933* Publisher: The Medici Society.* Binding and cover condition: Soft thick paper covers with orange thread binding showing a black and orange illustration of a fox in an orange frame. Very slight creases. Small split to tail of spine. Some damage at top front and minor age overall. ACC* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY, Clean, tight & bright. No Annotations or Inscriptions, No tanning, seems lightly read. GD++* Illustrations: A number of b/w line drawn illustrations by Lionel Edwards.* Pages: 6 pp. text.* Product Description :- A short poem published three years before his death, it traces the development of man and his relationship with nature over the ages. From the earliest time when foxes were a threat to the development of domesticated herds by primitive man, he points to the growth of hunting by the aristocracy. Referencing the institution of the enclosure acts, he ends with modern times when more foxes perished through road kill than were ever taken by the hunt.*