Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Light staining to the panel edges. Light foxing to prelims. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 234 pages, [16] leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 30 cm. Notes; Collection of English prose and verse. "First printed, September 1929"--Title page verso. Kipling's poem "The English way," p. 18-20, published for the first time. Cf. Stewart. Contains index present. Contents; Memorable days, by J. Galsworthy. -- Scarlatt, by H. Walpole. -- The English way, by R. Kipling. -- Earl Haig, by W.S. Churchill. -- Thomas Atkins, by E. Wallace. -- Debtors who have short memories, by A. Bennett. -- The widow, by R. Bridges. -- History, by L. Binyon. -- Pussycat Pennefather, by M. Kennedy. -- The Cicadas, by A. Huxley. -- Colonel Beech's bear, by D. Garnett. -- Du côté de chez Renard, by H. Newbolt. -- Wilt thou leave me thus? by A.E. Coppard. -- The muse absent, by J.C. Squire.