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 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 (19 x 13.5 cm); tissue-guarded frontispiece and 42 illustrations including 19 full-page to The Jungle Book, 39 illustrations, including head-and tail-piece vignettes and historiated initials to The Second Jungle Book, contemporary ownership inscription to preliminary leaf of both volumes, occasional spotting; uniformly bound in publisher's blue cloth, decoratively ruled and pictorially stamped in gilt on front covers, spines lettered in gilt, all edges gilt, a little wear to heads of spines, a few small marks to the upper board of The Jungle Book, a very good set indeed; [2], vi, [2], 212; [6], 240pp.