Description

[004278] Kipling, Rudyard. The Glory of the Garden. ill. Verity, Judith. Andoversford, Gloucester: The Whittington Press, 1989. First Edition. 4to. Hardback. Good+ / No Jacket (as Issued). ISBN: 1854280201. [20]p, double leaves folded at the fore-edge. Original card covers

Very slightly rubbed to extremities, spine lightly faded, internally bright and clean

With eighteen linocuts by Judith Verity

One of a hundred copies, this being copy 48, with another twenty-five containing an additional set of the linocuts. Signed by the artist to the limitation leaf. With a copy of the original prospectus, but without the slipcase

The third book Whittington book illustrated with linocuts by Verity, “they were based on the garden at Whittington Court and most have printed captions identifying the different parts of the garden. Seventeen of the linocuts are full-page and they are printed with one verse of the poems per page” (Butcher, The Whittington Press, A Bibliography 1982-93, page 101)

Butcher 101