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The Glory of the Garden.
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The Glory of the Garden. With linocuts by Judith Verity.

Publication details: Andoversford: The Whittington Press,1989,

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Kipling's patriotic exaltation of the garden is used as the basis for Verity's wonderfully colourful and sprawling designs. This deluxe version accompanied by an extra suite of Verity's linocuts, on individual sheets and without the text.

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XXI/25 COPIES (from an edition of 125 copies) signed by the illustrator, printed on Oxford laid paper, each page with a hand-coloured linocut incorporating a stanza of the poem, french-folded sheets, these special copies with an extra suite of the 17 linocuts (without text), again hand-coloured and signed by the illustrator, in a green card portfolio, pp. [18], 4to, original green wrappers, oval label to front with a hand-coloured linocut border by Verity, this and the additional portfolio (their backstrips with uniform slight fading) together in cloth and board slipcase, near fine

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