BINDINGS -- KIPLING, Rudyard (1865-1936). Writings in Prose and Verse.  London: W. Thacker and Co. and Calcutta: Thacker Spink and Co., 1898-1905. 23 volumes, 8° (211 x 140mm). (Light spotting.) Modern half brown morocco gilt. Provenance: William Henry Smith, 3rd Viscount Hambleden (1903-1948; book label).
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BINDINGS -- KIPLING, Rudyard (1865-1936). Writings in Prose and Verse. London: W. Thacker and Co. and Calcutta: Thacker Spink and Co., 1898-1905. 23 volumes, 8° (211 x 140mm). (Light spotting.) Modern half brown morocco gilt. Provenance: William Henry Smith, 3rd Viscount Hambleden (1903-1948; book label).

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BINDINGS -- KIPLING, Rudyard (1865-1936). Writings in Prose and Verse. London: W. Thacker and Co. and Calcutta: Thacker Spink and Co., 1898-1905. 23 volumes, 8° (211 x 140mm). (Light spotting.) Modern half brown morocco gilt. Provenance: William Henry Smith, 3rd Viscount Hambleden (1903-1948; book label).

EDITION DE LUXE, most volumes limited to 1050 copies (some volumes with smaller limitation). The set extended to 39 volumes by 1937. Livingston, p. 447. Together with 80 other finely bound volumes from the collection of William Henry Smith, 3rd Viscount Hambleden and including 15 volumes from Thomas Quincey's Works (London: 1862-63); Right Honorable B. Disraeli Works in 9 volumes (London: n.d.) and Lord Byron's The Works in 17 volumes (London 1835-33). (98)
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