Lot 2834
Kipling, Rudyard. The Jungle Book, first edition, later issue, half-title, illustrations after J. L. Kipling, W. H. Drake and P. Frenzeny, free-endpaper inscribed by a previous owner 'Elsie Deane 1896', with her bookplate, publisher's blue cloth gilt, with the original pictorial dust-jacket, spine darkened, but all edges intact, 8vo, London: Macmillan and Co., 1896
RARE. Examples of The Jungle Book with a dust-jacket rarely appear at auction. The most frequently seen are entirely plain, but this copy has the more scarce printed pictorial variant.
N.B. Please note this is a later impression of the first edition.
