Title & Author:

The book of the queen's dolls' house / edited by A.C. Benson and Sir Lawrence Weaver.

Publication:

London : Methuen & Co. Ltd., [1924]

Description:

2 volumes (xiv, 248 pages, 92 leaves of plates; xiv, 383 pages, 24 leaves of plates) : illustrations (some color), facsimiles ; 27 cm

Notes:
"With ninety-two plates of which twenty-four are in colour."--Volume 1 title page.
"The book of the queen's dolls' house library / edited by E.V. Lucas, with twenty-four plates of which eight are in colour."--Volume 2 title page.
Volume designations on half titles and on original book jackets.
"A selection in facsimile from the volume of verses by Rudyard Kipling, written and illustrated by the author"--Volume 2, plate XIV (opposite p. 192).
Rudyard 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.
Not listed in Stewart, J.M. Kipling.
LC copy issued together in slipcase 28 x 21 cm. Original dust-jackets removed and placed in accompanying folder.
DLC
Vol. 1 The Queen's dolls' house; edited by A.C. Benson, and Sir Lawrence Weaver. -- Vol. 2. The Queen's dolls' house library; edited by E.V. Lucas.
Livingston, F.V.M. Kipling Suppl., page 174
Riewald, J.G. Sir Max Beerbohm, man and writer, entry 69

Summary:

The 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.A. Milne and others.

Subject:

Lutyens, Edwin Landseer, Sir, 1869-1944.
Mary, Queen, consort of George V, King of Great Britain, 1867-1953.
Mary, reine, épouse de George V, roi de Grande-Bretagne, 1867-1953.
Dollhouses.
Maisons de poupée.
dollhouses.

Form/genre:

Illustrated works.

Added entries:

Benson, Arthur Christopher, 1862-1925, editor.
Weaver, Lawrence, 1876-1930, editor.
Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall), 1868-1938, editor.
Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936. Poems. Selections.
Colt Kipling Collection (Library of Congress)

Queen's dolls' house
Volume 2 title: Book of the queen's dolls' house library

Holdings:

Location: Library main 63391
Call No.: W9660; ID:85-B8260
Copy: 2 v.
Status: Available