[KIPLING, RUDYARD]. The Jungle Book. London: Macmillan & Co., 1897.
SIXTH IMPRESSION. Leather-bound; hardcover; octavo (19 x 12 x 2.5 cm); pp. vi, [2], 276. English text. Handsomely bound in full polished calf gilt by Bayntun-Riviere; all page edges gilt; hand-marbled endpapers; half-title; illustrated throughout by J. Lockwood Kipling, W. H. Drake and P. Frenzeny; head- and tail-pieces; decorative initials. Printed in Great Britain by R. & R. Clark. Condition: NEAR FINE. Binding tight and secure, the hinges and joints perfectly intact. Covers nicely preserved with some trivial fading along the spine and a couple of light surface marks to boards. Interior showing some very occasional light scattered foxing. Ex-libris bookplate to front pastedown. A wonderful copy.
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