Sales catalogue 629: Maggs Bros

Date:
1936
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/166
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 629: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    208 KINGLAKE (A. W.). Eothen: or, Traces of Travel brought home from the East. Two coloured plates. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, fine copy bound by Riviére in full polished calf extra, uncut, top edges gilt, with original cloth covers bound in. London, 1844. &6 10s RUDYARD KIPLING. PRESENTATION Copy. 209 “ Captains Courageous,” A Story of the Grand Banks. Post 8vo, original buckram, t.e.g. London, 1908. £35 Presentation Copy from Rudyard Kipling, with inscription in his auto- graph:—‘ To Joan Cannon, from her obliged servant the Author. June, 1910.” 210 [Departmental Ditties.] Correspondence concerning the re-pur- chase by Mr. Kipling of the copyright of Departmental Ditties. A series of eight letters between Thacker and Co. (the then owners of the copyright), A. P. Watt (Kipling’s literary agent), and the publishers, Gay and Bird. Each letter has been placed in a sunk mount, and bound 4to size. Full levant morocco extra, g.e. &63 A most interesting correspondence. In 1897 Kipling wishing to re-purchase the copyright of Departmental ‘Ditties commissioned his literary agent, A. P. Watt, to enter into negotiations with Thacker & Co., the owners of the copyright. Finding direct negotiations very difficult, Mr. A. P. Watt was finally successful through the efforts of Messrs. Gay and Bird, and the sum of £2,000 was agreed upon for Mr. Kipling to pay for the copyright. 211 The Jungle Book, 1894. The Second Jungle Book, 1895. With illustrations by J. L. Kipling. First Epitions of the 2 vols., post 8vo. Elaborately bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in blue levant morocco, leather joints, real shark-skin doublures and real snake-skin fly leaves, the whole binding elaborately inlaid with symbolic designs, enclosed in a double book form thumb case having the backs covered in snake- skin. The front cover of ‘“ The Jungle Book ” contains a design of “ Hathi,” the elephant, the eye represented by a small ruby; with lotus flowers inlaid in white in the background. The back cover has “ Rikki- Tikki-Tavi,”’ the mongoose, inlaid in leather. The front cover of ‘“ The Second Jungle Book ”’ contains the python “Kaa,” inlaid in snake-skin. The back cover has the head of ‘** Akela,” the lone wolf, with a ruby set for the eye. The borders of the sides and the back panels consist of floral decoration with emblematic tools. Surrounding each doublure runs an inscription consisting of extracts from ‘‘ The Law of the Jungle.” The gilt edges of each volume are tooled and gauffered. £52 10s 212 The Jungle Book, 1894. The Second Jungle Book, 1895. With illustrations by J. Lockwood Kipling. FIRST EDITIONS. 2 vols., post 8vo, original cloth gilt, g.e. £15 213 Letters of Travel (1892-1913). FiIRST EDITION. Post 8vo, original cloth. London, 1920. 14s [ 23 |
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