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Condition: Stewart and Yeats (1982). Periodical. Twelve volumes bound together. Small 8vo. 4.25 x 7 inches. 12 title pages, each [ii] pp. + 188 pp. Illustrated by fifteen plates, including portraits and facsimiles and by drawings in text and title page vignettes. Title page within coloured frame rules with copyright note on verso. Complete bound set of a rare Kipling periodical that was issued for one year only and never published in Britain. It includes items by Kipling, not previously collected in book form, (such as the poem, Mulvaney Regrets in No 4), anecdotes and biographical and bibliographical information. There are articles for the Kipling collector with current prices of early editions and even a parody of The White Man's Burden by Henri Labouchere, changing it to the brown man's burden. A few eccentricities of production are noticeable- an article on The Original of Mulvaney, ends in the middle of a word in No.7 and resumes again, at the point where it left off, in No. 8. The last two issues are largely bibliographical, listing works by and about Kipling with a list of portraits. Several of these are included as supplements to various of the issues. Note Book No. 2 reproduces facsimiles of the original blue green wrappers of the first six titles in the Indian Railway Library and they are discussed in the text with extracts from their prefaces. Scarce piece of Kiplingiana. LITERATURE ENGLISH LIT. FICTION LIT. NON-FICTION ASIA LITERATURE.