KIPLING (Rudyard): — Departmental Ditties and Other Verses. Second Edition.

Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co. 1886 8vo, 190 x 140 mms., pp. [iii] - vi [vii drop-title, viii], 63 [64 blank], 6 [adverts], discound; no half-title, cords exposed, one leaf of marbled paper following last leaf. The Times of India said of the first edition that the poems \"[i]n their collected from they make a very pleasant companion for a lonely half-hours, or to while away the tedium of a railway journey. The verses are all written in a light style, which is very attractive, and on one with the slightest appreciation of humour will fail to indulge in many a hearty laugh before turning over the last page.\"