A Song of the English
by Kipling, Rudyard. W. Heath Robinson (illustrator)
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- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Pasadena, California, United States
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About This Item
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1909. First trade edition. Original blue cloth with front cover pictorially stamped in gilt on front cover and spine. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Large quarto (10 15/16 x 8 5/8 inches; 278 x 219 mm.). [64] leaves. Thirty color plates (including frontispiece), mounted on leaves with color border decorations. Descriptive tissue guards, each with a miniature line illustration. Pictorial title and fifty-nine black and white line illustrations in the text (half-page or smaller). Title printed in red and black. An excellent copy of the first trade edition.
"This poem originally appeared in The English Illustrated Magazine, May, 1893, prior to its inclusion in The Seven Seas, 1896" (Martindell). It is classic Kipling, beautifully illustrated by Robinson.
Beare 61b. Lewis 215. Livingston 321. Martindell 133 (giving the date of publication as 1913). Stewart 151.
"This poem originally appeared in The English Illustrated Magazine, May, 1893, prior to its inclusion in The Seven Seas, 1896" (Martindell). It is classic Kipling, beautifully illustrated by Robinson.
Beare 61b. Lewis 215. Livingston 321. Martindell 133 (giving the date of publication as 1913). Stewart 151.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Whitmore Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3767
- Title
- A Song of the English
- Author
- Kipling, Rudyard. W. Heath Robinson (illustrator)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First trade edition
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1909
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Miniature
- A book that is less then 3 inches in width and ...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...