The fox meditates / by Rudyard Kipling ; illustrated by Lionel Edwards.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936, author.

Contributor:

Edwards, Lionel, 1878-1966, artist.

Medici Society, publisher.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

English Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Reeve Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Great Britain--History--Poetry.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Gift books.

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Ballard, Ellis Ames, 1861-1938 (label) (Culture Class)

Wolf, Edwin, 1911-1991 (donor) (Kislak Libra copy)

Physical Description:

[8] pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

[London] : [The Medici Society, Ltd.], [1933]

Notes:

First (English) edition.

Cover title. Covers included in pagination.

Paper covers with single orange border, title, author, and illustrator printed in black under orange bordered panel containing a drawing of a fox in black and orange, sewn throught the fold with orange thread. A slip with vignette of a horse and rider and "With best wishes" sewn in.

"To be used as a Christmas card, this pamphlet editon with six drawings by Lionel Edwards was published by the Medici Society ... One change was made from the American copyright text: in the fifth line of the sixth stanza, the original 'built a Car' becomes here 'pupped a Car', an alteration retained in all subsequent printings."--Cf. Richards

Poem.

Stewart 617.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has [1] leaf of paper from Bickers and Son Limited with compliments & thanks with the written ms. annotation "First edition. Just Published" laid in.

Culture Class Collection copy has leather label of the Ellis Ames Ballard Kipling Collection.

Athenaeum copy: Gift of Mrs. Benjamin R. Hoffman.

Cited in:

Richards, D.A. Kipling, A415

OCLC:

4987242