THE SUSSEX EDITION OF THE COMPLETE WORKS IN PROSE AND VERSE (35 Volumes, Complete) SIGNED, LIMITED EDITION

SIGNED, LIMITED EDITION No. 88 of 525 Copies 35 Volumes, complete. 8vo. (25 x 16cm) hardbacks in full russet Niger morocco, bound by James Burn, with raised bands in six compartments, gilt, and double gilt fillet borders to upper and lower boards. Top edges gilt on rough, others uncut. Marbled endpapers. Titles printed in white on chestnut panels on handmade paper with Ganesha watermark. " The present volumes constitute the deluxe and definitive edition of Kipling's oeuvre, which he worked on in his final years before his death in 1936. Two volumes of uncollected prose and much verse are collected here for the first time. During the bombing of London in 1941 a substantial portion of the unbound sheets was destroyed; it was later said, in Macmillan's centenary history, that the visitors' furniture at the publisher's office was covered with the Nigerian goatskin leather which could not be used for the destroyed text blocks." [Richards D23]. Lower board to Volume I lightly scuffed and with small streaks of white (please see photos). A VERY GOOD, HANDSOME SET.