KIPLING (Rudyard). The Jungle Book. - The Second Jungle Book. London, Macmillan & Co, 1894-1895. 2 volumes in-12, bradel blue percaline, special gilt embossing on front cover and spine, gilt edges (publisher's binding). First edition of the two collections of The Jungle Book. Both volumes are decorated with beautiful in- and out-of-text compositions by the author's father, John Lockwood Kipling, and the American illustrators William Henry Drake and Paul Frenzeny. Fine copies, well preserved in their attractive publisher's bindings. Some scattered foxing. Enclosed are - three letters from Kipling to his French translator Louis Fabulet, including an autograph card signed 24 July 1913 and two typescript letters signed 1927 and 1928, with their three addressed envelopes. The latter details the meaning of the names of the characters in The Jungle Book: Bagheera, Baloo, Hathi, Nag, Bander, Shere Kahn, etc. - a beautiful autograph card signed by Maurice Maeterlinck to Louis Fabulet: "I have just reread in your beautiful translation the Second Jungle Book, which I had previously read in English, and thanks to you I have seen again, but more clearly, more limpidly and more purely, the adventurous and essential life of Mowgli. I don't need to tell you how much I admire your translation. Kipling owes you a great debt of gratitude. It seems to me that you have done for him what Baudelaire did for Edgar Poe...". - a photographic portrait of Rudyard Kipling taken by Francis Henry Hart for Elliott & Fry, London, circa 1893, vintage albumen print (14.5 x 10.3 cm) mounted on the photographers' card.