The Jungle Book [with] The Second Jungle Book.

The Jungle Book is a collection of stories first published in 1894. The Second Jungle Book, published in 1895, contains stories linked by poems. The stories tell mostly of Mowgli, an Indian boy raised by wolves from infancy, learning self-sufficiency and wisdom from the jungle animals. The. The book describes the social life of the wolf pack and, more fancifully, the justice and natural order of life in the jungle. Among the animals whose tales are related in the work are Akela the wolf; Baloo the brown bear; Shere Khan, the boastful Bengal tiger who is Mowgli's enemy; Kaa the python; Bagheera the panther; and Rikki-tikki-tavi the mongoose.' (Merriam-Webster's Encyclopaedia of Literature).

First edition, fourth printing & first edition, second printing; 2 vols, 8vo (190 x 135 mm); The Jungle Book, 39 text illustrations, including head-and tail-piece vignettes and historiated initials; original dark grey/green coated endpapers, scattered foxing throughout, to quite heavy in places; Second Jungle Book with light, occasional foxing, heavier to upper, secondary blank endpapers; both volumes in publisher's blue cloth, decoratively ruled and pictorially stamped in gilt on front covers and spines and lettered in gilt on spines, all edges gilt, bumping to spine ends and tips, contemporary ink gift inscription to both vols dated 11th July, 1900, otherwise externally very clean and bright; [2, blank], vi, [2, contents], 212 pp, frontispiece and 42 illustrations including 19 full-page; [2, blank], [6], 240pp; both contained in a modern, cloth-covered slip-case.