Details

Subject(s)

• Nursery rhymes [Browse]

Illustrator

• Boot, W. H. J. (William Henry James), 1848-1918 [Browse]
• Giacomelli, Hector, 1822-1904 [Browse]

Publisher

• Cassell & Company [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Fiction [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Juvenile literature [Browse]
• Publishers advertisements [Browse]

Notes

• "Printed by Cassell & Company, Limited, La Belle Sauvage, London, E.C."--Colophon.
• La Belle Sauvage printer's device--t.p. verso.
• Preface to "very young readers" explaining the book's unusual pagination, in which there are 4 different pp. 1-8 to be read in any combination by readers, resulting in 65,536 different versions of the story.
• Text and illustrations printed on recto only.
• Illustrations: Engraved frontis., signed P.H.T., and engravings throughout the text, signed by Boot, Giacomelli, and others.
• Cotsen copy: "Edward Gommo, Prize in 3rd Standard, Cheam and Cuddington National School, A.D. 1892"--Inscription on front free endpaper verso.

Binding note

Pub. light brown cloth, brown-stamped with pictorial designs on covers and gilt-stamped with title on upper cover.

Other title(s)

• Stories about Jack and Jill
• Story of Jack and Jill

OCLC

177726544

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