The Complete Jungle Book, Hardcover

This lavish and beautiful gift book contains Rudyard Kipling's best loved animal stories, The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book, the bonus story The Cat That Walked by Himself, Kipling's most famous poem, If, and biographical information about Kipling. A final chapter features rare images of memorabilia from the Macmillan Kipling archive. Macmillan published the first edition of The Jungle Book in 1894 and remained Kipling's primary publisher his whole life. The Complete Jungle Book includes many illustrations by Stuart Tresilian, who illustrated these titles for Macmillan in the 1930s, in black line and the book also includes many full colour illustrations.