Rudyard Kipling | The Jungle Book [and] The Second Jungle Book, 1894-1895, first editions

Rudyard Kipling

The Jungle Book [and] The Second Jungle Book. London: Macmillan, 1894-1895.

The Jungle Book. 1894, illustrations by J.L. Kipling, W.H. Drake, and P. Frenzeny; The Second Jungle Book. 1895, illustrations by J.L. Kipling, 2pp. publisher's advertisements at end; FIRST EDITIONS, both 8vo (186 x 123mm.), original blue cloth with lettering in gilt on spines and pictorial designs on upper covers and spines, gilt edges, dark green endpapers, collector's full blue morocco folding box by Sangorski and Sutcliffe replicating upper cover designs in gilt, occasional light spotting

Fine copies in a sumptuous collector's box.

LITERATURE:

Livingston 104, 116; Martindell 61, 63; Stewart 123, 132

PROVENANCE:

Mrs J. Insley Blair, Blairhame labels on front fixed endpapers; Sotheby's London 12 December 2012, unsold lot 163