[Volume 1] "With ninety-two plates of which twenty-four are in colour." Title page of volume 2 reads: The book of the queen's dolls' house library / edited by E.V. Lucas with twenty-four plates of which eight are in colour."." Volume designations on half titles and on original book jackets. Volume 1: xiv, 248 pages, XCII leaves of plates; volume 2: xiv, 383 pages, XXIV leaves of plates. "A selection in facsimile from the volume of verses by Rudyard Kipling, written and illustrated by the author": volume 2, plate XIV (opposite page 192). Rudyard Kipling selections include: If, The children's song, The road through the woods, Merrow down, The fairies' siege, A charm, Recessional, The prayer, "Mother 'o mine", and Eddi's service. Cf. volume 2, pages 191-200. Not listed in Stewart, J.M. Kipling.
Summary:
The first volume describes the doll house designed by the architect Sir Edwin Lutyens which was made as a gift to Queen Mary of England in 1924. The second volume describes the library and includes facsimiles and specimen pages of books and paintings made expressly for the doll house by Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Conan Doyle, A.C. Milne and others.
Indexed by:
Livingston, F.V.M. Kipling Suppl., p. 174
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1997921
LCCN:
24024045
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
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