Details

Subject(s)

• Children's poetry, English [Browse]

Illustrator

Crane, Walter, 1845-1915 [Browse]

Printer

Evans, Edmund, 1826-1905 [Browse]

Publisher

George Routledge and Sons [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Fairy tales [Browse]
• Printed wrappers [Browse]
• Publishers' advertisements [Browse]

Series

• Routledge's new sixpenny toy books [More in this series]
• Routledge's new sixpenny toy books ; 112 [More in this series]

Notes

• Date from Masaki, who notes redesigned cover's appearance in 1882 (this cover does not list Crane's Toy Books series, unlike prior Routledge version); Masaki identfies Evans as printer, as in earlier version.
• Title (with "bean-stalk" hyphenated), publisher, and series no. from front wrapper; series name (repeating series no. for this title) from lower wrapper publisher's advertisement.
• "Sixpence"--At head of title.
• 4 bifolia, printed on one side only; first and last leaves laid down to wrappers.
• Mounted on linen (even though eds. "mounted on cloth" are advertised at "one shilling each" on lower wrapper (as usual).
• Illustrations: 7 chromoxylographs, including double-leaf centerfold, signed with Crane's glyph, with text inset into scroll-like cartouches.
• Text begins: "In the days of good King Alfred / lived a widow with her son; / She was kind, and he was idle, so / at last their wealth was done."

Binding note

Pub. yellow wrappers, upper with pictorial design in red and green, depicting Jack buying the beans, repeating plate 1, and lower with publisher's advertisement, listing Sixpenny series titles from #2 to #124 (and Crane designs from # 37 to #116).

References

Masaki, T. Victorian popular picture bks., p. I, 563, II. p. 85

Other title(s)

• Jack and the beanstalk
• Jack and the beanstalk. English.

OCLC

644682805

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