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Puck of Pook's Hill / by Rudyard Kipling ; illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - American Imprints 1906 Kipling
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Barton, Andrew, -1511--Juvenile literature.
- Barton, Andrew.
- Cabot, Sebastian, approximately 1474-1557--Juvenile literature.
- Cabot, Sebastian.
- John, King of England, 1167-1216--Juvenile literature.
- John.
- Fondazione Magna Carta--Juvenile literature.
- Fondazione Magna Carta.
- Puck (Legendary character)--Juvenile literature.
- Puck (Legendary character).
- Secularization--Great Britain--History--16th century--Juvenile literature.
- Secularization.
- Space and time--Fiction.
- Space and time.
- Space and time--Juvenile literature.
- Great Britain--History--Juvenile literature.
- Great Britain.
- Hadrian's Wall (England)--History--Juvenile literature.
- Hadrian's Wall (England).
- Genre:
- Historical fiction.
- Juvenile fiction.
- Pictorial cloth bindings (Binding) -- 1906.
- Physical Description:
- 277 pages, [4] leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Doubleday, Page & Company, 1906.
- Summary:
- Tells the story of Dan and Una and their adventures with Puck as he introduces them to the nearly forgotten pages of Old England's history and to the people who had lived near Pook's Hill and helped make that history from the time of Hadrian's Wall to the signing of Magna Carta and the Dissolution of the Monasteries. Includes stories and poems.
- Contents:
- Puck's song
- Weland's sword
- A tree song
- Young men at the manor
- Sir Richard's song
- Harp song of the Dane women
- The knights of the joyous venture
- Thorkild's song
- Old men at Pevensey
- The runes on Weland's sword
- A centurion of the Thirtieth
- A Britsh-Roman song
- On the great wall
- A song to Mithras
- The winged hats
- A Pict song
- Hal o' the draft
- A smuggler's song
- The bee boy's song
- 'Dymchurch Flit'
- A three-part song
- Song of the fifth river
- The treasure and the law
- The children's song.
- Notes:
- T.p. within black and red rules with publisher's device.
- Contains verse and prose.
- Gilt top edges; right and bottom edges cut but untrimmed.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Bound in original green cloth with caravel design in black on upper cover and spine. Lettering in gilt on upper cover and spine.
- Athenaeum copy: Inscribed on flyleaf: "Dec 25th 1906, Marguerita Straus from Walter Jacobson."
- Cited in:
- Magee, D. Victoria R.I., no. 656
- Stewart, J.M. Kipling, 307.
- Riall, R. Arthur Rackham, 75.
- OCLC:
- 542890
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