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050 00 $aNA2790$b.B4$aNK4894.G7B
051 $aNA2790$b.B4 Copy 2$cPart of the gift of Mrs. H. Dunscombe Colt, 1984-1987. Has bookplate of H. Dunscombe Colt on front paste-down of each volume.
245 04 $aThe book of the queen's dolls' house /$cedited by A.C. Benson and Sir Lawrence Weaver.
246 30 $aQueen's dolls' house
246 1 $iVolume 2 title:$aBook of the queen's dolls' house library
260 $aLondon :$bMethuen & Co. ltd.,$c[1924]
300 $a2 v. :$bill. (some col.) ;$c27 cm.
520 $aThe first volume describes the doll house designed by the architect Sir Edwin Lutyens which was made as a gift to Queen Mary of England in 1924. The second volume describes the library and includes facsimiles and specimen pages of books and paintings made expressly for the doll house by Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Conan Doyle, A.C. Milne and others.
500 $a[Vol. 1] "With ninety-two plates of which twenty-four are in colour".
500 $aTitle page of volume 2 reads: The book of the queen's dolls' house library / edited by E.V. Lucas with twenty-four plates of which eight are in colour".
500 $aVolume designations on half titles and on original book jackets. Vol. 1: xiv, 248 p., XCII leaves of plates; vol. 2: xiv, 383 p., XXIV leaves of plates.
500 $a"A selection in facsimile from the volume of verses by Rudyard Kipling, written and illustrated by the author": vol. 2, plate XIV (opposite p. 192).
500 $aRudyard Kipling selections include: If, The children's song, The road through the woods, Merrow down, The fairies' siege, A charm, Recessional, The prayer, "Mother 'o mine", and Eddi's service. Cf. vol. 2, p. 191-200.
510 4 $aLivingston, F.V.M. Kipling Suppl.,$cp. 174
500 $aNot listed in Stewart, J.M. Kipling.
500 $aLC copy issued together in slipcase 28 x 21 cm. Original dust-jackets removed and placed in accompanying folder.$5DLC
650 0 $aDollhouses.
600 10 $aLutyens, Edwin Landseer,$cSir,$d1869-1944.
600 00 $aMary,$cQueen, consort of George V, King of Great Britain,$d1867-1953.
700 1 $aBenson, Arthur Christopher,$d1862-1925.
700 1 $aWeaver, Lawrence,$d1876-1930.
700 1 $aLucas, E. V.$q(Edward Verrall),$d1868-1938.
700 12 $aKipling, Rudyard,$d1865-1936.$tPoems.$kSelections.
710 2 $aColt Kipling Collection (Library of Congress)$5DLC