![]() ![]() ![]() Set in Bembo type on hand-made paper, bound in Nigerian goatskin, and limited to 525 sets, the Sussex Edition did not begin publication until 1937 sales were slow in those depression years, and a large number of the unbound sheets lying in a London warehouse was destroyed by German bombs. The selection, fuller than that of any other edition, was the work of Kipling, and he saw the proofs of at least 21 of the edition's 35 volumes before his death. The idea for the edition went back to 1928 and work was begun by 1930. the Sussex Edition of his works, undertaken by Macmillan as a monument to one of the firm's most profitable authors. In his last years and with his health failing Kipling continued the gathering-up of existing material that resulted in "the great retrospective work. The Sussex Edition, number 513 of a limited edition of 525 sets signed by the author on the limitation leaf of vol. ![]()
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