KIPLING, Rudyard — The Jungle Book

Book J.L.Kipling, W.H. Drake and P. Frenzeny Very Good Reprint Macmillan & Co 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall 276 pages. Octavo.Uniform Edition 1899 reprint A beautifully preserved full green leather binding, richly tooled in gilt with a contrasting red leather title label to the spine. Gilt compartments bright and sharp; all page edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Endpapers lightly foxed, otherwise clean and fresh throughout. A contemporary Edwardian prize binding, with a neat inscription dated 1905 on the front endpaper: "Reward for Holiday Work, Bertram Silcock, Midsummer1905 Edwin Bull." Leather remains very bright, gilt crisp, and the binding tight and square. A particularly handsome example of an early Macmillan reprint in a superior period binding. Condition: Very Good+ (bright leather and gilt; gilt edges; light foxing to endpapers).