Rudyard Kipling — They

London, Macmillan and Co. 1905. First edition. Cloth. The first separate UK edition of Rudyard Kipling's haunting story 'They'; the first impression printed by Bemrose Dalziel, with illustrations by F. H. Townsend. The first separate UK edition, first impression of this work with "Printed by Bemrose Dalziel Ltd. London and Watford" to page 80. Bound in the publisher's original cloth binding with pictorial gilt to the front board.Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and fourteen colour plates complete with tissue guards. Collated, complete.Kipling's semi-autobiographical story concerning grief and ghost children, with beautiful illustrations by Frederick Henry Townsend (1868-1920), the first Art Editor of Punch Magazine.This work was first published in Scribner"s Magazine for August 1904 and collected in Traffics and Discoveries in the same year. This is the first UK edition to be published separately. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, generally smart though faded with handling marks. Pencil mark to the front board. Hinges are starting but remain firmly held. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with offsetting to the end papers and from the browned tissue guards. The occasional handling mark. Very Good . Ill.: F. H. Townsend. Very Good .