The Jungle Book  &The Second Jungle Book. With Illustrations by J. Lockwood Kipling & W.J. Drake. London: Macmillan, 1937 & 1940. Pp, (1) 276; (2) 299. A good set in red cloth covers, with original pictorial dust jackets. Top edges in gilt.

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