Rudyard Kipling | Collected Verse, 1912, inscribed to Percy L. Wyndham

Rudyard Kipling

Collected Verse. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1912.

first edition, royal octavo, inscribed by the author on half-title ("To Percy L. Wyndham | with every good wish from | Caroline & Rudyard Kipling") additionally with a quatrain from 'The Return' ("If England was what England seems...") initialled ("R.K."), blue cloth with printed labels on upper cover and spine, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, spotting, wear to spine corners, staining to spine

Captain Percy Lyulph Wyndham (1887-1914) was the son of the Hon. George Wyndham, a politician and man of letters. He was an officer in the Coldstream Guards and was killed in action in the opening weeks of World War I.