KIPLING, Rudyard (1865-1936) & Jessie Marion KING, illustrator. L'Habitation Forcée, translated by Louis Fabulet and Robert d'Humières. Paris: René Kieffer, 1921. 4° (236 x 180mm). 28 pochoir-coloured illustrations and a set of 30 uncoloured plates. (Light spotting to plates.) Original pictorial wrappers.
COPY NO. 11 OF 50 COPIES ON JAPON from a total edition of 550. Kipling's story was originally published in Actions and Reactions (1909). This illustrated version of the story by Jessie M. King shows the continuing influence of Beardsley and is one of the Scottish illustrator's scarcer books. Livingston Supplement, p. 210.
KIPLING, Rudyard (1865-1936) & Jessie Marion KING, illustrator. L'Habitation Forcée, translated by Louis Fabulet and Robert d'Humières. Paris: René Kieffer, 1921. 4° (236 x 180mm). 28 pochoir-coloured illustrations and a set of 30 uncoloured plates. (Light spotting to plates.) Original pictorial wrappers.
COPY NO. 11 OF 50 COPIES ON JAPON from a total edition of 550. Kipling's story was originally published in Actions and Reactions (1909). This illustrated version of the story by Jessie M. King shows the continuing influence of Beardsley and is one of the Scottish illustrator's scarcer books. Livingston Supplement, p. 210.
