In this title, the Detmold Brothers' finest wild animal illustrations rejoined with Kipling's classic stories. This is an otherwise modest edition of the first volume of Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book appeared in 1908, distinguished mainly by the inclusion of 16 breathtaking colour plates by the gifted artist twins Maurice and Edward J. Detmold. Calla's newly designed selection of the most beloved of Kipling's classic stories contains all of the Detmolds' original colour illustrations. The plates were scanned from a rare set of portfolio prints to ensure the greatest possible fidelity to the brothers' original conception for the art. This Calla Editions Original is based on the edition published by Macmillan & Co., London, 1908.