[Fine Binding | Kipling] The City of Dreadful Night Drop 3 James Russell

James Russell

and accented with small gilt dots

with very well-executed leaf pattern borders in gilt on the front and rear borders

Christmas with Leberecht Hühnchen

see Annotated Dictionary of Fore-edge Painting Artists and Binders (Weber)

[Fine Binding | Kipling] The City of Dreadful Night Drop 3 James RussellKipling, Rudyard. The City of Dreadful Night and Other Places. Allahabad: A. H. Wheeler & Co., 1891. First published (and second Indian) edition. (The first Indian edition was suppressed, and only three copies were kept, with the remainder destroyed.) Original grey green printed wrappers bound in (with writing in pen to front wrapper); advertisements inside both covers bound in, as well. "Indian Railway Library, No. XIV" with imprint at bottom of p.