Kipling Rudyard

1719 · rif. B3715 — New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons 1909 1911 1917 1919 1920. Lacks Part One of “From Sea to Sea” Volume XV otherwise a very fine set text and plates are clean and crisp and bound in handsome period binding. . Edition: New York Binding: Original publisher’s black ½ morocco with light blue marble boards spine in six compartments of raised bands and gilt floral motifs gilt text in two and three top edges gilt edges uncut occasionally unopened endpapers marbled. Notes: The later volumes vols XXVI XXVII & XXVIII are published in purple and dark blue boards. The “Outward Bound” edition was published in installments between 1897 until the end of Kipling’s life in 1936. The complete set eventually included 36 volumes; however variations appeared in the printing over the years. Text published in two volumes in earlier printings was combined into single volumes to save money on the part of the publishers. The published letters of Rudyard Kipling 2004 indicate that Kipling often disapproved of the cost-saving measures of Scribner’s preferring that later printings kept the same numeration of the volumes as the earlier ones. Size: 8vo. Illustration: Each volume with a frontispiece several illustrative plates throughout. Volume: 27 volumes of 36. Category: Book Literature; Book Bindings Sets; Charles Scribner’s Sons hardcover