Kipling's Indian Tales., With Original Illustrations by L.J. Bridgman and Others de KIPLING, Rudyard - 1899

New York: Dodge Publishing Company from the plates of H.M. Caldwell Co, 1899. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Oriental Edition. vi, 750pp, frontis portrait with tissue protector, 16 monochrome illustrations from artwork. 8vo/21cm. Extensively decorated maroon cloth gilt, in mylar protector, light fading to spine with edgewear on ends, top edge gilt, few small foxing marks pages 18 and 19, small chips tail of pp 366 and 551, otherwise clean, tight and very good. Thirty six short stories concerning India mainly from Kipling's early years. Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907, was one of the most popular writers in English during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Lewis Jesse Bridgman (1857-1931) was an author and book illustrator..