Cosmopolitan Rudyard Kipling Jungle Book

Original antique poster for The Cosmopolitan An Illustrated Monthly Magazine October 1895 advertising the contents of the issue including the headline article - The Last of the Jungle Stories by Rudyard Kipling - featuring an intricate Art Nouveau design with a scene from the Jungle Book showing a child sitting on a rock with a bear, leopard, wolf and snake beneath a full moon and an image of a man in a suit standing with his arms crossed in a forest looking up at a ghostly figure of a lady in front of the trees, the articles listed around the images with a decorative border including the words America Europe Asia Africa Oceanica on the side and Volume XIX Number 6 Illustrated by Cabrinety, Osterlind, Drake, Denman, Carter Beard and Kemble in bold red letters below. First published in 1886 The Cosmopolitan was a family magazine run by Paul Schlicht in New York; this issue was edited by John Brisben Walker (1847-1931) who bought the magazine in 1889 and transformed it into a literary magazine; in 1905 it was bought by William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951) and is now a popular women's monthly fashion, lifestyle and entertainment magazine Cosmopolitan (also known as Cosmo) under Hearst Communications. Written by Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), The Jungle Book was first published in magazines as a series of stories from 1893, inspired by the author's childhood in India. Good condition, restored tears, restored paper losses, minor staining, backed on linen.