Rudyard Kipling: 'The Jungle Book', London, Macmillan, 1894,...

Hammer

£270

Rudyard Kipling: 'The Jungle Book', London, Macmillan, 1894, 1st edition, black & white frontispiece + full page and in text b/w ills. by J.L. Kipling, W.H. Drake & P. Frenzeny as called for, original pictorial cloth gilt, all edges gilt. Formerly the copy of Helen Gladstone (1849-1925), British educationist, vice-principal at Newnham College in Cambridge, and co-founder of the Women's University Settlement, daughter of William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898), British Prime Minister and Liberal politician, with her ownership signature at head of title page "Helen Gladstone Pitlochrie July 2 1894"