London; Hodder & Stoughton, 1914., 1914. Hardcover. Reprint. Quarto. 123 pp. 16 colour plates tipped-in, including frontispiece with captioned tissue guard; vignette to title page plus numerous black-and-white illustrations throughout, all by W Heath Robinson. Book Condition: Very Good. Jacket Condition: Good. Publisher's decorative blue cloth with gilt titles and green stylised rosebush-and-crown motif to spine and upper board; gilt-stamped crest of Auckland Girls' School to lower board. Unclipped grey dust-jacket with gilt titles and colour cover plate (matches plate facing pp 36). Boards bumped at corners and a little rubbed to edge but bright. Jacket lightly surface soiled with stain to rear fold; rubbed with wear at corners, 1-inch split at lower front fold and small loss head/tail of spine. Printed school prize plate to front pastedown with name of recipient Phyllis Nicholson and Prize for Hygiene handwritten in the appropriate places and dated 1920. Sporadic foxing throughout and free endpapers toned; colour plates all clean and uncreased. Rare in jacket.

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Bookseller: Keel Row Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 4082
Title: A Song of the English
Author: Kipling, Rudyard
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used
Publisher: London; Hodder & Stoughton, 1914.
Date Published: 1914
Keywords: Illustrated

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Keel Row Books is Tyneside's leading bookshop for collectable, antiquarian and second-hand books.Formerly of North Shields we are now in newly renovated double-fronted shop in the middle of Whitley Bay. Open Mon to Sat 10-5.
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Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Vignette: A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
Gilt: The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
Soiled: Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
Reprint: Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
Title Page: A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
Quarto: The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
Plate: Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...