1894 Rare First Edition - Indian Fairy Tales -Tales of the Punjab by Flora Annie Steel.
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Author: Flora Annie Steel. John Lockwood Kipling (Illustrator). Richard Carnac Temple (Contributor).
Title: Tales of the Punjab Told by the People. With Illustrations by J. Lockwood Kipling and Notes by R. C. Temple.
Publisher: London: Macmillan and Co.,1894. First Edition.
Language: Text in English.
Size: 7 " X 5 ".
Pages: xvi-395 pages.
Binding: Attractive and very good publisher original gilt decorated cloth binding (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover. All edges gilt.
Content: Good content (tight, foxing and staining - as shown, ex-libris of Paul Latcham on the first endpaper - as shown, small hole on the lower margin of few pages not affecting the text - as shown).
Illustrations: Profusely illustrated by John Lockwood Kipling .
The book: Rare First edition of the Tales of the Punjab by Flora Annie Steel including the following India Fairy and Folklore tales: Sir Buzz; The Rat's Wedding; The Faithful Prince; The Bear's Bad Bargain; Prince Lionheart and his Three Friends; The Lambikin; Bopoluchi; Princess Aubergine; Valiant Vicky, the Brave Weaver; The Son of Seven Mothers; The Sparrow and the Crow; The Tiger, the Brahman, and the Jackal; The King of the Crocodiles; The Anklebone; The Close Alliance; The Two Brothers; The Jackal and the Iguana; The Death and Burial of Poor Hen-sparrow; Princess Pepperina; Peasie and Beansie; The Jackal and the Partridge; The Snake-woman and King Ali Mardan; The Wonderful Ring; The Jackal and the Pea-hen; The Grain of Corn; The Farmer and the Money-lender; The Lord of Death; The Wrestlers; The Legend of the Glacier-hearted Queen; The Barber's Clever Wife; The Jackal and the Crocodile; How Raja Rasalu was Born; How Raja Rasalu Went Out Into the World; How Raja Rasalu's Friends Forsook Him; How Raja Rasalu Killed the Giants; How Raja Rasalu Became a Jogi; How Raja Rasalu Journeyed to the City of King Sark; How Raja Rasalu Swung the Seventy Fair Maidens; How Raja Rasalu Played Chaupur with King Sarkap; The King Who was Fried; Prince Half-a-son; The Mother and Daughter Who Worshipped the Sun; The Ruby Prince.
The author: Flora Annie Steel (2 April 1847 – 12 April 1929) was a writer who lived in British India for 22 years. She was noted especially for books set in the Indian sub-continent or connected with it. Her novel On the Face of the Waters (1896) describes incidents in the Indian Mutiny.
The illustrator: John Lockwood Kipling CIE (6 July 1837 – 26 January 1911) was an English art teacher, illustrator and museum curator who spent most of his career in India. He was the father of the author Rudyard Kipling.