NMLP P-028503 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-04

Departmental Ditties and Other Verses

Rudyard Kipling · Civil and Military Gazette Press, Lahore · 1886

The true first is the Lahore issue printed in narrow octavo and bound in printed light-brown wrappers made to imitate an official Indian Civil Service envelope, with an overlapping flap bearing a seal device, the leaves stapled as issued and a ribbon passed through a slit in the flap

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-028503 for "Departmental Ditties and Other Verses" by Rudyard Kipling (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-028503, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).