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Lot 84
Sale 2721 - Books & Manuscripts
May 28, 2020
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[Literature] Kipling, Rudyard A Song of the English
London: Hodder & Stoughton, no date (1909). First and limited edition thus, #254 of 500 numbered copies, signed by illustrator W. Heath Robinson. 4to. Unpaginated. Illustrated with 30 tipped-in color plates, with captioned tissue guards, and numerous in-text illustrations by Robinson. Original full pictorial vellum-covered boards, lightly rubbed, a bit soiled, stamped in gilt, red, and green; top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed; original silk ties intact; scattered spotting to prelims and text; in chemise and quarter blue chieftan slip case; for Asprey.