The Two Jungle Books, With Illustrations by J. Lockwood Kipling and W.H. Drake. Signed Binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe

The Two Jungle Books, With Illustrations by J. Lockwood Kipling and W.H. Drake. Signed Binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe

Author: Kipling, Rudyard (b.1865 – 1936)

12mo. (4.75" x 7.125") 1926. Kipling, Rudyard. London. Macmillan and Co., Limited. Full green polished leather with double gilt rule framing covers, front with a centered gilt roundel of elephants' head and filigree. Spine with five gilt decorated raised bands, gilt title to gilt rule framed red leather in second compartment, gilt author to gilt rule framed red leather in third, gilt rule frames and centered devices to all other compartments, the top compartment with centered gilt swastika. All edges gilt, printed endpapers. Signed binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe.

From Wiki: Joseph Rudyard Kipling (b.1865 – 1936) was an English novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist. He was born in British India, which inspired much of his work. Kipling's works of fiction include the Jungle Book duology (The Jungle Book, 1894; The Second Jungle Book, 1895), Kim (1901), the Just So Stories (1902) and many short stories, including "The Man Who Would Be King" (1888). His poems include "Mandalay" (1890), "Gunga Din" (1890), "The Gods of the Copybook Headings" (1919), "The White Man's Burden" (1899), and "If—" (1910). He is seen as an innovator in the art of the short story. His children's books are classics; one critic noted "a versatile and luminous narrative gift". Kipling in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was among the United Kingdom's most popular writers. Henry James said, "Kipling strikes me personally as the most complete man of genius, as distinct from fine intelligence, that I have ever known." In 1907, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, as the first English-language writer to receive the prize, and at 41, its youngest recipient to date. He was also sounded out for the British Poet Laureateship and several times for a knighthood but declined both. Following his death in 1936, his ashes were interred at Poets' Corner, part of the South Transept of Westminster Abbey.

John Lockwood Kipling CIE (b.1837-1911) was an English art teacher, illustrator and museum curator who spent most of his career in India. He was the father of the author Rudyard Kipling. Kipling illustrated many of Rudyard Kipling's books, and other works, including Tales of the Punjab by Flora Annie Steel.

William Henry Drake (b.1856 – 1926) was an American painter and illustrator known for his illustrations of The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling. Having developed skills in drawing wild animals, particularly wild cats, in 1894, he received commissions to illustrate books, including The Jungle Books, by Kipling.

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