[Fine Binding | Kipling] The City of Dreadful Night E-List 14 beautifully hand illuminated title page

beautifully hand illuminated title page and initials

"James Harris and 'Hermes' - Culture"

Robinson was a competent binder producing work in the Cockerell and Sangorski & Sutcliffe style

Original gilt decorated cream cloth

Green and purple mottled endpapers

[Fine Binding | Kipling] The City of Dreadful Night E-List 14 beautifully hand illuminated title pageKipling, 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.