Author: Kipling, Rudyard.
Title: Recessional: A Victorian Ode. With Illustrations by Blanche Mcmanus.
Description: NY: Published by M. F. Mansfield & A. Wessels, [1899]. [1899]. - Small 4to, pictorial buff boards (rubbed, bumped & darkened); titled & elaborately illustrated in gilt & orange on front cover; t.e.g. Pictorial cream wraps bound in as endpapers, as issued (remnants of removed gift label on front endpaper). 16 leaves, including endpapers. Text printed in orange & black. Illustrated with 5 full-page plates, printed in orange, by Blanche McManus. Good.

Limited edition of 500 copies "printed on Windsor deckle edge paper in November of the year eighteen hundred ninety-nine". [Stewart p.620].

The plates by Blanche McManus depict armored knights readying for battle. Good .

Keywords: LITERATURE; VICTORIAN; ODE; MEDIEVAL; KNIGHTS; KNIGHTHOOD; BATTLE; RECESSIONAL; MIDDLE AGES; RUDYARD KIPLING; LIMITED EDITION; ILLUSTRATED; PLATES; ILLUSTRATIONS.

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