Yale Center for British Art

Title:
The history of Jack & the bean-stalk / edited and illustrated with six etchings by George Cruikshank.
Alternate Title(s):
Jack and the beanstalk.
Published / Created:
London : David Bogue, 86 Fleet Street, [1854]
Physical Description:
32 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
PR3991.A1 J33 1854
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Printed by G. Barclay, Castle St. Leicester Sq.

At head of title: George Cruikshank's fairy library.

Printed wrappers, the front engraved by Thomas Williams.

Cohn, A.M. George Cruikshank, 197

Osborne Collection of early children's books, 1566-1910, p. 596

BAC: British Art Center copy bound in half red calf and marbled boards. List of illustrations precedes frontispiece. Frontispiece is the plate "Jack climbing the bean-stalk". Plate at p. 28 is "Fairies tie the giant up in the bean-stalk".

BAC: British Art Center copy has bound with it: Cinderella and the glass slipper / edited and illustrated ... by George Cruikshank. London : D. Bogue, [1854]; and, Hop-o'my-thumb / edited and illustrated ... by George Cruikshank. London : D. Bogue, [1853].

Publisher's advertisement on back printed wrapper.
Subject Terms:
Children's stories. | Mothers and sons -- Juvenile fiction. | Giants -- Juvenile fiction. | Bogue, David -- Publisher. | Barclay, G. -- Printer. | Scheuer, Gloria -- Provenance. | Etching -- Specimens -- 1854.
Form/Genre:
Juvenile literature -- England -- London -- 1854. | Fairy tales -- England -- London -- 1854.
Contributors:
Cruikshank, George, 1792–1878, ill. | Williams, Thomas, b. ca. 1800, engraver.