[Fine Binding | May Rosina Prat] The Seven Seas

Kipling, Rudyard. The Seven Seas. London: Methuen and Co, 1896. First British edition of Kipling's collection of songs and poems dedicated to voyages on the high seas. One of 150 copies printed on handmade Michallet paper. Bound in crushed green morocco by May Rosina Prat (her initials signed in blind on the bottom of the rear turn-in) with a hand-tooled ship in gilt adorning the front cover, featuring two large sails topped with a flag on top of a bow cutting through stylized gilt waves. Title and author to second and fourth compartments of spine, with remaining compartments and bands ruled in gilt. Gilt-rolled turn-ins with light green endpapers. Top edge gilt. Measures approx. 5.75" x 9". Light rubbing to edges and corners. Spine slightly browned.  Given Prat's connection to T.J. Cobden-Sanderson through Evelyn Nordhoff (see below), the design here calls to mind the Viking ship tooled by C-S on his binding of The Life and Death of Jason, which was illustrated in Brander Matthews' Bo