The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book. With Illustrattions by J.L. Kipling, W.H. Drake. London: Macmillian, 1965;1962. The two volumes bound as one. Full polished blue morocco, spine compartments embellished in gilt, with animal motifs, inner dentelles & marbled endpapers; all edges in gilt.  A fine bright copy.

Kipling’s classic tale featuring Shere Khan the tiger and Baloo the bear, and the boy or “man-cub” Mowgli, who is raised in the jungle by wolves. In a beautiful binding by Bayntun-Riviere.  Both volumes with illustrations by the author’s father, John Lockwood Kipling.

Bayntun (now Bayntun-Riviere) is one of the last great Victorian trade binderies still in family ownership, world-famous for its traditional hand-binding techniques. Its bindings are highly sought after by collectors, often found on fine first editions of Dickens, Hardy, and Wilde.

Bayntun bindings represent the “classic English tradition“ at its finest