The bindery

The bound classics

One hundred of the greatest books ever written in English, each hand-bound in leather and made to be kept. Choose a book and it goes straight to your cart — we source a fresh copy, bind it by hand and ship it to your door.

Standard binding

A gilt border, the title and author foiled in gold, and a raised, gilded spine. One fixed price for each book, with the book itself included. Dispatched in 7–10 days, with free delivery across India.

Custom binding from Rs. 2,000

A one-of-a-kind cover designed around the book — illustrated, gilded and finished by hand. We check the book, cost the design and binding, and send you a quote.

100 books

  1. No. 1

    Ulysses

    James Joyce, 1922

    Rs. 2,100

    Custom bound

  2. No. 2

    The Great Gatsby

    F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925

    Rs. 1,800

    Custom bound

  3. No. 3

    The Catcher in the Rye

    J. D. Salinger, 1951

    Rs. 2,100

    Custom bound

  4. No. 4

    Moby-Dick

    Herman Melville, 1851

    Rs. 2,000

    Custom bound

  5. No. 5

    Nineteen Eighty-Four

    George Orwell, 1949

    Rs. 1,900

    Custom bound

  6. No. 6

    The Sound and the Fury

    William Faulkner, 1929

    Rs. 1,900

    Custom bound

  7. No. 7

    Lolita

    Vladimir Nabokov, 1955

    Rs. 2,100

    Custom bound

  8. No. 8

    Wuthering Heights

    Emily Brontë, 1847

    Rs. 1,900

    Custom bound

  9. No. 9

    Pride and Prejudice

    Jane Austen, 1813

    Rs. 1,900

    Custom bound

  10. No. 10

    To Kill a Mockingbird

    Harper Lee, 1960

    Rs. 2,100

    Custom bound

  11. No. 11

    The Lord of the Rings

    J. R. R. Tolkien, 1954

    Rs. 2,600

    Custom bound

  12. No. 12

    Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    Mark Twain, 1884

    Rs. 1,800

    Custom bound

  13. No. 13

    Middlemarch

    George Eliot, 1871

    Rs. 2,000

    Custom bound

  14. No. 14

    To the Lighthouse

    Virginia Woolf, 1927

    Rs. 1,800

    Custom bound

  15. No. 15

    The Grapes of Wrath

    John Steinbeck, 1939

    Rs. 2,100

    Custom bound

  16. No. 16

    Jane Eyre

    Charlotte Brontë, 1847

    Rs. 1,900

    Custom bound

  17. No. 17

    Heart of Darkness

    Joseph Conrad, 1899

    Rs. 1,800

    Custom bound

  18. No. 18

    Mrs Dalloway

    Virginia Woolf, 1925

    Rs. 1,800

    Custom bound

  19. No. 19

    Invisible Man

    Ralph Ellison, 1952

    Rs. 2,100

    Custom bound

  20. No. 20

    Catch-22

    Joseph Heller, 1961

    Rs. 2,100

    Custom bound

  21. No. 21

    Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

    Lewis Carroll, 1865

    Rs. 1,800

    Custom bound

  22. No. 22

    Great Expectations

    Charles Dickens, 1860

    Rs. 1,900

    Custom bound

  23. No. 23

    Frankenstein

    Mary Shelley, 1818

    Rs. 1,800

    Custom bound

  24. No. 24

    On the Road

    Jack Kerouac, 1957

    Rs. 2,100

    Custom bound

  25. No. 25

    Absalom, Absalom!

    William Faulkner, 1936

    Rs. 2,300

    Custom bound

  26. No. 26

    Beloved

    Toni Morrison, 1987

    Rs. 2,100

    Custom bound

  27. No. 27

    David Copperfield

    Charles Dickens, 1849

    Rs. 1,900

    Custom bound

  28. No. 28

    Brave New World

    Aldous Huxley, 1932

    Rs. 1,900

    Custom bound

  29. No. 29

    Lord of the Flies

    William Golding, 1954

    Rs. 2,000

    Custom bound

  30. No. 30

    The Old Man and the Sea

    Ernest Hemingway, 1952

    Rs. 1,800

    Custom bound

  31. No. 31

    Animal Farm

    George Orwell, 1945

    Rs. 1,800

    Custom bound

  32. No. 32

    Tristram Shandy

    Laurence Sterne, 1759

    Rs. 2,100

    Custom bound

  33. No. 33

    Rebecca

    Daphne du Maurier, 1938

    Rs. 2,100

    Custom bound

  34. No. 34

    Dracula

    Bram Stoker, 1897

    Rs. 1,900

    Custom bound

  35. No. 35

    The Sun Also Rises

    Ernest Hemingway, 1926

    Rs. 1,900

    Custom bound

  36. No. 36

    Midnight's Children

    Salman Rushdie, 1981

    Rs. 2,100

    Custom bound

  37. No. 37

    Things Fall Apart

    Chinua Achebe, 1958

    Rs. 2,000

    Custom bound

  38. No. 38

    Under the Volcano

    Malcolm Lowry, 1947

    Rs. 2,100

    Custom bound

  39. No. 39

    The Golden Notebook

    Doris Lessing, 1962

    Rs. 3,500

    Custom bound

  40. No. 40

    Their Eyes Were Watching God

    Zora Neale Hurston, 1937

    Rs. 2,000

    Custom bound

  41. No. 41

    Gulliver's Travels

    Jonathan Swift, 1726

    Rs. 1,900

    Custom bound

  42. No. 42

    The Portrait of a Lady

    Henry James, 1881

    Rs. 1,900

    Custom bound

  43. No. 43

    Gone with the Wind

    Margaret Mitchell, 1936

    Rs. 2,000

    Custom bound

  44. No. 44

    The Scarlet Letter

    Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1850

    Rs. 1,900

    Custom bound

  45. No. 45

    Robinson Crusoe

    Daniel Defoe, 1719

    Rs. 1,800

    Custom bound

  46. No. 46

    Pale Fire

    Vladimir Nabokov, 1962

    Rs. 2,100

    Custom bound

  47. No. 47

    A Farewell to Arms

    Ernest Hemingway, 1929

    Rs. 2,000

    Custom bound

  48. No. 48

    Hamlet

    William Shakespeare, 1600

    Rs. 1,900

    Custom bound

  49. No. 49

    Emma

    Jane Austen, 1815

    Rs. 1,900

    Custom bound

  50. No. 50

    Slaughterhouse-Five

    Kurt Vonnegut, 1969

    Rs. 2,100

    Custom bound

  51. No. 51

    A Passage to India

    E. M. Forster, 1924

    Rs. 1,900

    Custom bound

  52. No. 52

    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

    James Joyce, 1916

    Rs. 1,900

    Custom bound

  53. No. 53

    Leaves of Grass

    Walt Whitman, 1855

    Rs. 2,000

    Custom bound

  54. No. 54

    As I Lay Dying

    William Faulkner, 1930

    Rs. 1,900

    Custom bound

  55. No. 55

    The Good Soldier

    Ford Madox Ford, 1915

    Rs. 1,900

    Custom bound

  56. No. 56

    Little Women

    Louisa May Alcott, 1868

    Rs. 1,800

    Custom bound

  57. No. 57

    The Picture of Dorian Gray

    Oscar Wilde, 1890

    Rs. 1,800

    Custom bound

  58. No. 58

    The Age of Innocence

    Edith Wharton, 1920

    Rs. 2,000

    Custom bound

  59. No. 59

    The Bell Jar

    Sylvia Plath, 1963

    Rs. 1,800

    Custom bound

  60. No. 60

    Orlando

    Virginia Woolf, 1928

    Rs. 1,900

    Custom bound

  61. No. 61

    Dune

    Frank Herbert, 1965

    Rs. 2,300

    Custom bound

  62. No. 62

    Charlotte's Web

    E. B. White, 1952

    Rs. 1,900

    Custom bound

  63. No. 63

    For Whom the Bell Tolls

    Ernest Hemingway, 1940

    Rs. 2,000

    Custom bound

  64. No. 64

    Vanity Fair

    William Makepeace Thackeray, 1847

    Rs. 1,900

    Custom bound

  65. No. 65

    Walden

    Henry David Thoreau, 1854

    Rs. 1,900

    Custom bound

  66. No. 66

    Tess of the d'Urbervilles

    Thomas Hardy, 1891

    Rs. 1,900

    Custom bound

  67. No. 67

    The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

    Edgar Allan Poe, 1902

    Rs. 2,800

    Custom bound

  68. No. 68

    Native Son

    Richard Wright, 1940

    Rs. 2,300

    Custom bound

  69. No. 69

    The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

    Carson McCullers, 1940

    Rs. 2,100

    Custom bound

  70. No. 70

    Paradise Lost

    John Milton, 1667

    Rs. 1,900

    Custom bound

  71. No. 71

    Tom Jones

    Henry Fielding, 1749

    Rs. 2,100

    Custom bound

  72. No. 72

    The Big Sleep

    Raymond Chandler, 1939

    Rs. 1,900

    Custom bound

  73. No. 73

    Treasure Island

    Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883

    Rs. 1,900

    Custom bound

  74. No. 74

    The Wind in the Willows

    Kenneth Grahame, 1908

    Rs. 1,900

    Custom bound

  75. No. 75

    In Cold Blood

    Truman Capote, 1966

    Rs. 2,100

    Custom bound

  76. No. 76

    Brideshead Revisited

    Evelyn Waugh, 1945

    Rs. 2,100

    Custom bound

  77. No. 77

    Bleak House

    Charles Dickens, 1852

    Rs. 2,100

    Custom bound

  78. No. 78

    Sons and Lovers

    D. H. Lawrence, 1913

    Rs. 1,900

    Custom bound

  79. No. 79

    The Handmaid's Tale

    Margaret Atwood, 1985

    Rs. 2,100

    Custom bound

  80. No. 80

    The Waste Land

    T. S. Eliot, 1922

    Rs. 1,900

    Custom bound

  81. No. 81

    The Maltese Falcon

    Dashiell Hammett, 1930

    Rs. 1,900

    Custom bound

  82. No. 82

    The Talented Mr. Ripley

    Patricia Highsmith, 1955

    Rs. 2,200

    Custom bound

  83. No. 83

    King Lear

    William Shakespeare, 1608

    Rs. 1,800

    Custom bound

  84. No. 84

    The Woman in White

    Wilkie Collins, 1860

    Rs. 1,900

    Custom bound

  85. No. 85

    All the King's Men

    Robert Penn Warren, 1946

    Rs. 2,200

    Custom bound

  86. No. 86

    The Hobbit

    J. R. R. Tolkien, 1937

    Rs. 2,100

    Custom bound

  87. No. 87

    Lord Jim

    Joseph Conrad, 1900

    Rs. 1,800

    Custom bound

  88. No. 88

    My Ántonia

    Willa Cather, 1918

    Rs. 1,900

    Custom bound

  89. No. 89

    The Color Purple

    Alice Walker, 1982

    Rs. 2,000

    Custom bound

  90. No. 90

    A Clockwork Orange

    Anthony Burgess, 1962

    Rs. 2,100

    Custom bound

  91. No. 91

    Giovanni's Room

    James Baldwin, 1956

    Rs. 2,100

    Custom bound

  92. No. 92

    The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

    Muriel Spark, 1961

    Rs. 2,100

    Custom bound

  93. No. 93

    Wide Sargasso Sea

    Jean Rhys, 1966

    Rs. 2,200

    Custom bound

  94. No. 94

    Fahrenheit 451

    Ray Bradbury, 1953

    Rs. 2,000

    Custom bound

  95. No. 95

    Silent Spring

    Rachel Carson, 1962

    Rs. 2,000

    Custom bound

  96. No. 96

    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

    Ken Kesey, 1962

    Rs. 2,100

    Custom bound

  97. No. 97

    Tender Is the Night

    F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1934

    Rs. 1,900

    Custom bound

  98. No. 98

    The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

    Emily Dickinson, 1890

    Rs. 3,100

    Custom bound

  99. No. 99

    The Hound of the Baskervilles

    Arthur Conan Doyle, 1902

    Rs. 1,900

    Custom bound

  100. No. 100

    Macbeth

    William Shakespeare, 1606

    Rs. 1,800

    Custom bound