The Jungle Book (100th Anniversary Edition): Illustrated First Edition *EPUB
A special edition with 60 black and white illustrations, 16 of them full page Detmold illustrations. SeaWolf Press is proud to offer another book in its 100th Anniversary Collection. Each book in the collection contains the text, illustrations, and cover from the first or early edition. Use Amazon's Lookinside feature to compare this edition with others. You'll be impressed by the differences. Our version has:60 original illustrations. Don't be fooled by other versions with missing or made-up pictures.Text that has been proofread to avoid errors common in other versions.A beautiful cover that replicates the first edition cover.The complete text in an easy-to-read font similar to the original.Properly formatted text complete with correct indenting, spacing, footnotes, italics, and tables. Look for other books in our 100th Anniversary Collection. The Jungle Book (1894) is a collection of stories by the English author Rudyard Kipling. Most of the characters are animals such as Shere Khan the tiger and Baloo the bear, though a principal character is the boy or "man-cub" Mowgli, who is raised in the jungle by wolves. The stories are set in a forest in India; one place mentioned repeatedly is "Seonee" in the central state of Madhya Pradesh. A major theme in the book is abandonment followed by fostering, as in the life of Mowgli, echoing Kipling's own childhood. Read more
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Why Must Read The Jungle Book (100th Anniversary Edition): Illustrated First Edition?
The Jungle Books are in the public domain, so the only meaningful thing to review here is the physical book, and the quality of its presentation. Glancing at the back, you can immediately see that the photo of Kipling is distorted into the wrong aspect ratio. Extremely amateurish. The paper quality is ok, the binding is basic, the layout is ok, but the printing seems very cheap. The publisher says that they don't photocopy, but nevertheless the experience here *is* akin to reading a photocopy. I'd say it's worth about 2 stars. On its website, the publisher even admits that its quality bar is very low. "The text has been properly formatted [...]", it boasts, as if that's something that it's not possible any longer to take for granted. And "Versions of these classics available from other publishers often have oversize pages, no paragraph indents, no illustrations, or very tiny print." So as long as you clear that bar, you're doing well in the publishing business? I don't think so.
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