The Jungle Book. 1894, illustrations by J.L. Kipling, W.H. Drake and P. Frenzeny, FIRST EDITION; The Second Jungle Book. 1895, illustrations by J.L. Kipling, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, 2pp. publisher's advertisements at end; both 8vo, original blue pictorial cloth gilt, green endpapers, gilt edges, collector's black morocco folding box by Sangorski and Sutcliffe featuring the original gilt designs from the upper cover of each book, booklabels, some very minor spotting or browning, very slightly bumped at extremities (2)

Mrs J. Insley Blair (Sotheby's New York, 3 December 2004, lot 186)

Richards A76; A85

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate.
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Exceptional copies in a sumptuous collector's box