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The Works of Rudyard Kipling

Creator: Rudyard Kipling
Offered by: Imperial Fine Books

Description
Bombay Edition. Leatherbound. 31 volumes. First published in 25 volumes but eventually grew to 31 volumes as Kipling continued to write. SIGNED by Rudyard Kipling in volume one on the front title page. This edition consists of 1050 copies printed by R. and R Clarke from the Florence Press Type, designed by Herbert P. Horne and lent by Chatto and Windus which hand-made paper that bears the watermark "RK", blue and black title pages.

Works include: 'Plain Tales From The Hills', 'From Sea To Sea', 'The Jungle Book', 'The Second Jungle Book', 'Just So Stories', 'The Days Work', 'Kim', 'Puck Of Pook's Hill', 'A Books Of Words', 'Many Inventions', 'A Book of Words', 'Captain Courageous', 'Reward And Fairies', 'Wee Willie Winkle', etc.

Contemporarily bound by Brentanos in full red crushed Morocco with covers tooled in double gilt fillets, spine elaborately tooled and lettered in compartments with five raised bands, top edge gilt, leather and gilt ruled turn-ins with decorative tan marbled endpaper, & untrimmed edges. Very good. Published in London by MacMillan & Co. Ltd. in 1913.

All listed dimensions are for a single volume.

More Information

Documentation:	Signed
Origin:	England
Period:	1900-1919
Materials:	Dyed leather, gilt leather, gilt paper, marbled paper
Condition:	Good. A handsome, signed collected set in fine binding.
Creation Date:	1913
Number of Pieces:	8+
Styles / Movements:	Classical, Other, Traditional
Dealer Reference #:	#1019
Incollect Reference #:	317319

Dimensions

W.	1.75 in;	H.	9.75 in;	D.	7 in;
W.	4.45 cm;	H.	24.77 cm;	D.	17.78 cm;

Message from Seller:

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