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Kipling, Rudyard, A Song of the English, with illustrations by W. Heath Robinson, Hodder &...
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Estimate: £400 - £600
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Lot 252
Description
Kipling, Rudyard, A Song of the English, with illustrations by W. Heath Robinson, Hodder & Stoughton, [1909]
A vellum bound limited edition signed by the illustrator
4to, limited edition of 500 copies, this being the publisher's file copy numbered 0000 and signed by the artist William Heath Robinson, 30 tipped-in colour plates by William Heath Robinson, other illustrations in text, tissue guards, original pictorial vellum gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, brown silk cloth ties, housed in a later green morocco backed green cloth folding box by Asprey
Provenance: Property of a Royal Family.
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