Sales catalogue 443: Maggs Bros

Date:
1923
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/24
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 443: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Kipling (Rudyard)—continued. WITH ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY F. C. MACRAE. 1744 Departmental Ditties, and other Verses. Third Edition. Square post 8vo, ovzgznal cloth. Calcutta, 1888. (SEE ILLUSTRATION, PLATE No. XV.). | £25 *** Unique Copy, Presentation from the Publishers to the celebrated Anglo-Indian Artist, F. ©. Macrae, with his Autograph Signature on fly-leaf.—Macrae has adorned several of the Margins with a series of 28 very clever drawings in Pen and Ink and Sepia, illustrating 14 of the Poems. F. C. Macrae was the illustrator of “ The Tribes on my Frontier,” of which Chamber’s Journal wrote “ The book is cleverly illustrated by Mr. F. C. Macrae. We have only to thank our Anglo-Indian naturalist for the delightful book which he has sent home to his countrymen in Britain. May he live to give us another such’; he also illus- trated ‘ Behind the Bungalow.’’—Both these works figure in the Catalogue of Thacker Spink and Co., issued at end of the present volume. This third edition of Departmental Ditties contains fifteen Poems not in the First Edition. and of these ten appear here in book-form for the first time; one of them, “ Diana of Ephesus,” has never been reprinted in later editions. 1745 Departmental Ditties, and other Verses. Third Edition. Square post 8vo, cloth. Calcutta, 1888. £2 10s *** This edition contains fifteen new Poems not in the First Edition, and ten not in the Second Edition. 1746 England and the English. Speech by Rudyard Kipling (Chairman) at the Festival Dinner, The Royal Society of St. George, 23rd April, 1920. 6 pp., 8vo, orzg¢nal covers. 1920. 6s 1747 The Five Nations. FIRST EDITION. Post 8vo, ovzginal cloth, uncut, ?. e. g. London, 1903. 10s 6d 1748 A Fleet in Being. Notes of Two Trips with the Channel Squadron. FIRST EDITION. Post 8vo, ovzginal wrappers. T.andon, 1898. 6s
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