By Rudyard Kipling
A Song of the English By Rudyard Kipling
Hodder & Stoughton, 1909.
First edition with W.H. Robinson illustrations. Large 4to. Blue cloth with gilt lettering and decoration to upper cover and spine. Thirty mounted colour plates captioned tissue guards(two with light corner turns) and fifty black and white drawings. A very good copy indeed of this glorious book of poetry.
A beautiful combination of poetry and illustration. Poems include: A Song of the English; The Coastwise Lights; The Song of the Dead, The Deep-Sea Cables; The Song of the Sons; The Song of the Cities and England's Answer. Beautiful illustrations include views of cities from the then British Empire, such as, Bombay, Hong-Kong, Calcutta and Sydney.
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