• First trade edition of A song of the English by Rudyard Kipling with thirty tipped in colour plates by W Heath Robinson, in very good condition
  • First trade edition of A song of the English by Rudyard Kipling with thirty tipped in colour plates by W Heath Robinson, in very good condition
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  • First trade edition of A song of the English by Rudyard Kipling with thirty tipped in colour plates by W Heath Robinson, in very good condition
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  • First trade edition of A song of the English by Rudyard Kipling with thirty tipped in colour plates by W Heath Robinson, in very good condition
  • First trade edition of A song of the English by Rudyard Kipling with thirty tipped in colour plates by W Heath Robinson, in very good condition
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KIPLING, Rudyard; W. Heath Robinson (illustrator).

A Song of the English.

A Song of the English.

Stock Code 121529

London, Hodder and Stoughton, [1909].

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'we were dreamers, dreaming greatly'

Comprising: I. A Song of the English, which first appeared in; 'The Seven Seas'; II. The Coastwise Lights; III. The Song of The Dead; IV. The Deep-Sea Cables; V. The Song of the Sons; VI. The Song of the Cities (Bombay, Calcutta, Madras, Rangoon, Singapore, Hong Kong, Halifax, Quebec and Montreal, Victoria, Capetown, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Hobart, Auckland); VII. England's Answer.

First Trade edition; 4to (290 x 240mm); 30 tipped-in colour plates with decorative borders, captioned tissue-guards, several in-line drawings; despite usual age-toning and minor spotting pages are clean and plates are exceptionally bright; publisher's blue cloth with gilt-blocked decoration to front board and spine, gilt titles, shelf wear to extremities of spine, sunning to lower panel, corners are shelf-worn, stains to boards, otherwise very good condition; unpaginated.

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