Kipling RudyardABAA
Kipling RudyardABAA
The Five Nations.
1903121678London: Methuen and Co. 1903. First edition first issue of Kipling's notable poetry collection with 'David' for 'Saul' on p.56 and ads dated July 1903. Octavo original cloth. In good condition. First published in 1903 Kipling's The Five Nations included a number of new poems as well as several that had been previously published notably Recessional of 1897. In 1903 the United Kingdom consisted of four nations: England Ireland Scotland and Wales. It was soon suggested that Kipling's "five nations" were the "five free nations of Canada Australia New Zealand South Africa i.e. Cape Colony and 'the islands of the sea' i.e. the British Isles" - all dominated by Britons; and except in the last case by recent settlers. That suggestion was endorsed some one hundred years later. Methuen and Co. hardcover books
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