Quarto. [7], 249pp, [2]. With half-title and 22 engraved plates by the author. Original publisher's decorated red cloth boards. Rubbed and marked, with spine dulled and chipped, some soiling to boards, corners bumped. Light browning and soiling to endpapers.

The first edition, second issue, in original boards, of Kipling's most popular collection of children's stories, centring around the unique adaptations of numerous anthropomorphised animals.