The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book (1894-1895)

Author: Rudyard Kipling

Book ID: 67436

Price: 695.00

The Jungle Book. With Illustrations by J.L. Kipling, W.H. Drake and P. Frenzeny. London: Macmillan, 1894. Third Impression. The Second Jungle Book. With illustrations by J. L, Kipling. London: Macmillan, 1895. First Edition. Publisher’s blue buckram boards with gilt design of elephants to upper cover of first volume and cobra to second volume, title lettered in gilt to spines. Scattered light foxing to text of first volume, more pronounced to the Second Jungle Book.

Kipling’s classic tale featuring Shere Khan the tiger and Baloo the bear, and the boy or “man-cub” Mowgli, who is raised in the jungle by wolves.

The first edition of the Jungle Book was published by Macmillan in 1894, with the second book published the following year.

Both contained illustrations by the author’s father, John Lockwood Kipling

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