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• Lot n° 446 STEEL, FLORA ANNIE Tales of the Punjab. Told by the People Macmillan & Co. London 1894 Gilt pictorial boards. First edition. 395 pages, several black & white illustrations A notable collection of 43 Punjabi tales collected and recounted by the English writer Flora Annie Steele (1847-1929). Steele spent 22 years in India, chiefly in the Punjab. Rejecting the role of idle "mehmsahib" she became an educational reformer and an outspoken critic of the colonial government's failings. She became deeply interested the local language and folk-tales and with Rudyard Kipling's father, John Lockwood Kipling worked to support Indian arts and crafts. The illustrations are by John Lockwood Kipling and Temple's notes provide helpful historical and cultural information. The binding is a design of a peacock and jackal under a flowering tree, and reproduces one of Kipling's illustrations. English Covers well worn and soiled, internally clean