Departmental ditties, and other verses
By: by Rudyard Kipling.
Contributors: Carpenter Kipling Collection (Library of Congress); Colt Kipling Collection (Library of Congress)
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Thacker, Spink & Co.; W. Thacker & Co.
Published: 1888
Place of publication: Calcutta; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 85
Notes: "Varying numbers of leaves of advertisements bearing various dates are bound in at the end"--Cf. Stewart.

LC copy has "Departmental ditties, opinions of the press on the first edition": p. [1]-3 and additional advertisement on p. [4] at end. Also has publisher's advertisement: "Thacker, Spink and Co., Calcutta. Illustrated Catalogue, March 1888": 40 p. at end.

Stewart, J.M.  Kipling, 10

Livingston, F.V.M.  Kipling, 13

NUC pre-1956 NK 0155549

LC copy in green cloth binding with gold tooling. Has bookplate of William M. Carpenter on front paste-down. In folder in slipcase 21 x 16 cm.
Table of contents: title: Departmental ditties: General summary; title: Army head-quarters; title: Study of an elevation, in Indian ink; title: A legend of the F.O.; title: The story of Uriah; title: The post that fitted; title: Public waste; title: Delilah; title: Pink dominoes; title: The man who could write; title: Municipal; title: A code of morals; title: The last department; title: Other verses: To the unknown Goddess; title: The Rupaiyat of Omar Kal'vin; title: La nuit blanche; title: My rival; title: The lovers' litany; title: A ballad of burial; title: Divided destinies; title: Diana of Ephesus; title: The mare's nest; title: Possibilities; title: Christmas Day in India; title: Pagett, M.P.; title: A ballade of Jakko Hill; title: The plea of the Simla dancers; title: Certain maxims of Hafiz; title: The moon of other days; title: The overland mail; title: What the people said; title: The undertaker's horse; title: The fall of Jock Gillespie; title: Arithmetic on the frontier; title: Two months; title: A tale of two cities; title: Giffen's debt; title: In spring time; title: L'envoi.