The Five Nations.

Kipling, Rudyard

Published by Methuen and Co, London, 1903

About this Item

Finely bound edition of Kipling's notable poetry collection. Duodecimo, bound in three-quarters morocco with gilt titles and pictorial tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, title page vignette. In very good condition, inscription to the second free endpaper. 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.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Five Nations.
• Publisher: Methuen and Co, London
• Publication Date: 1903
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
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