May 4, 2022 10:00 EST

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  Lot 38
 

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[Fine Bindings] Kipling, Rudyard
The Works of Rudyard Kipling

London: Macmillan and Co., 1913-38. In 31 volumes. 4to. One of 1,050 sets of The Bombay Edition, signed by Kipling in first volume (26th volume, issued in 1927, one of 1,000 copies; 27th-31st volumes, issued in 1938, one of 500 copies each). Full contemporary brown calf, stamped in gilt; red, brown, and green morocco spine labels, scattered scratching to boards, spines and joints variously dried with scattered chipping and rubbing; some boards lightly spotted; top edges gilt, other edges untrimmed; gilt dentelles; marbled endpapers; by Riviere & Son; gilt morocco book-plate on front paste-down in each volume; scattered minor foxing in prelims of some volumes, but not affecting text leaves.

Handsomely printed with wide margins by R. & R. Clark from the Florence Press type, designed by Herbert P. Horne.

Sold for $4,725
Estimated at $800 - $1,200


 

London: Macmillan and Co., 1913-38. In 31 volumes. 4to. One of 1,050 sets of The Bombay Edition, signed by Kipling in first volume (26th volume, issued in 1927, one of 1,000 copies; 27th-31st volumes, issued in 1938, one of 500 copies each). Full contemporary brown calf, stamped in gilt; red, brown, and green morocco spine labels, scattered scratching to boards, spines and joints variously dried with scattered chipping and rubbing; some boards lightly spotted; top edges gilt, other edges untrimmed; gilt dentelles; marbled endpapers; by Riviere & Son; gilt morocco book-plate on front paste-down in each volume; scattered minor foxing in prelims of some volumes, but not affecting text leaves.

Handsomely printed with wide margins by R. & R. Clark from the Florence Press type, designed by Herbert P. Horne.

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