The Second Jungle Book

Census claim CORRECTED. The census asserts that Macmillan (London) 1895 precedes the Century (New York) issue; the reverse is true. The Century Co. edition was published three days BEFORE the Macmillan London edition, making the American the true first by date, and dealer cataloguing further records that the American text carries a number of alterations against the English. The Macmillan London 1895 is the first English edition; it is the more sought-after of the two and it alone carries the celebrated truncated 'King's Ankus' ending, so both editions must be named and neither collapses into the other. The sources consulted fix the interval at three days but do not pin the exact calendar dates, which is left open here; all of the stories had appeared previously in magazines during 1894–95, so neither book is the first appearance of the text.