[Rarebooks] FS: Kipling's THE JUNGLE BOOKS, beautifully bound by Bayntun

[Charles Agvent]

KIPLING, Rudyard. THE JUNGLE BOOKS: THE JUNGLE BOOK with THE SECOND 
JUNGLE BOOK. London: Macmillan and Co., 1897; 1895. First Edition. Two 
volumes, Sixth Printing of the first volume and Second Printing of the 
second. Both uniformly and beautifully bound by Bayntun in full midnight 
blue morocco with elaborate multi-colored matching morocco onlays on the 
front covers depicting an elephant walking beneath a palm tree and gilt 
animal (wolf and panther) heads on the rear covers and on the spine 
panels which are also ruled and lettered in gilt; five raised bands; 
gilt dentelles, all edges gilt; marbled endpapers; original cloth covers 
bound in at the rear. Illustrated by J. L. Kipling, W. H. Drake, and P. 
Frenzeny. Very striking set. Trivial wear, touch of sunning to spines. 
Fine copies, beautifully bound.         $3,000.00

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