THE JUNGLE BOOK. [Illus by Maurice and Edward Detmold.**]
by KIPLING**, RUDYARD:
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- FINE./FINE.
- ISBN 10
- 0333593138
- ISBN 13
- 9780333593134
- Seller
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About This Item
illustrations list/table and 2pp blanks at the rear.Described hard but fairly and honestly; faults nowhere as bad as they read or sound
- still an acceptable,collectible edn.
It is now a hundred years since the first publication of 'The Jungle Book' by Macmillan and Co.This magical mixture of adventure,fable and allegory is perhaps the best-known collection of animal stories ever written.
But they are more than simple tales.The jungle in which Mowgli lives is populated with creatures in whom animal and human characteristics are brilliantly contrived.In this very real,often dangerous,world Mowgli grows up,learning the Law of the jungle from his animal guardians - Akela the wolf,Baloo the fatherly bear, Bagheera the wise panther and Kaa the tough,clever python.Even their enemy,the brutal,bullying tiger Shere Khan,has something to teach him.
In 'The Jungle Book',Kipling skilfully tempers morality with excitement, as in the story of the never-say-die mongoose,Rikki-Tikki-Tavi,and his life-and-death struggle with the cobra; and the mystery of animal society is hauntingly conveyed in the tale of Toomai,the boy who saw the elephant dance.
The superb water-colours of Maurice and Edward Detmold,which Macmillan commissioned in 1901 and published as a portfolio of prints in 1903,are used to illustrae this new edn.
The Detmold twins,worked as Maurice and Julius Detmold,1883-1908, and 1883-1957.Born in Putney, 21st November,1883,being christened Charles Frederick and Edward Barton Detmold.The two middle names were soon dropped and replaced by 'Maurice' and 'Julius' respectively.
The younger twin,Edward took his first names not from his father,but from the enigmatic Dr Edward Barton Shuldham,described as occupier of the house in Upper Richmond Road where the twins were born and were privately educated.They studied animal life in the Zoological Gardens and worked in close association,painting,drawing and etching bird and animal subjects.
They collaborated on several books before Charles Maurice ended his life by inhaling chloroform in 1908.[The brothers were in April 1908,about to leave for a holiday in Sussex with Dr Shuldham,who had asked Maurice to put down the household cats with chloroform. Not an unusual practice at that time: as the cats would be replaced on the return from the holiday.]
Edward Julius went on to become one of the most interesting of the gift book illustrators, specialising in animals and plants,which were drawn with exactitude and sympathy,and often placed in fantastic architectural or landscape settings.
In its delicacy of outline and subtle colour harmonies,his work shows the influence of of oriental miniature painting.In the early 1920's he retired to Montgomeryshire,with his widowed sister,continuing to draw,paint,hold exhibitions of etchings and drypoints,but it wasn't long before he retired completely from public life,and eventually committed suicide himself,on 1st July 1957.Both brothers were elected ARE (1905),but resigned a few months later.
View my 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die catalogue for another DETMOLD illustrated title: THE ARABIAN NIGHTS: TALES FROM THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS [rja28297] and for other books and suggested reading in it.
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Synopsis
RUDYARD KIPLING was born in Bombay in India in 1865 to British parents, and brought by a Portuguese 'ayah' (nanny) and an Indian servant, who would entertain him with fabulous stories and Indian nursery rhymes. He was sent back to England when he was seven years old, and lived in a boarding house with a couple who were cruelly strict. Fortunately he returned to India aged 16, to work as the assistant editor of a newspaper in Lahore. He began publishing stories and poems and eventually had great success with his book Plain Tales from the Hills . After his marriage Kipling settled in America, and it was here that he wrote The Jungle Book . He then moved with his family to England, where he wrote Just So Stories for his daughter Josephine who tragically died of pneumonia. Rudyard Kipling was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907 and died on January 18, 1936.
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- Bookseller
- R. J. A. PAXTON-DENNY. (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- rja1037122
- Title
- THE JUNGLE BOOK. [Illus by Maurice and Edward Detmold.**]
- Author
- KIPLING**, RUDYARD:
- Illustrator
- illus with colour illustrations by Maurice and Edward Detmold.**
- Book Condition
- Used - FINE.
- Jacket Condition
- FINE.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- UK,slim Qrto HB+dw/dj,illustrated 1st edn thus.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0333593138
- ISBN 13
- 9780333593134
- Publisher
- LONDON.MACMILLAN CHILDREN'S BOOKS,1993.
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- 1993
- Keywords
- q52.CHILDRENS/ILLUSTRATED.UK,slim Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus.ISBN 0333593138.Mowgli_Akela_Baloo_Bagheera_Kaa_Shere Khan_Rikki-Tikki-Tavi_Toomai.Books new,used,signed,rare.
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