Jack and the Bean Stalk

pcb1633
pcb1633
TITLE
Jack and the Bean Stalk.
PUBLISHED
London : Frederick Warne & Co., [1869].
PRINTED
London : Kronheim & Co.
PRICE
3d.
AUTHOR
Frederick Warne & Co. (publisher)
Kronheim & Co. (printer)
TYPOLOGY
DESCRIPTION
Size
19,5x14 cm
Format and pagination
16° : 12 pp. : 4 pages of text, [6] pages of plates : col. ill.
Signatures
A6
Signatures note
1 gathering, sewn (binding thread between A3.4)
Covers
Same upper wrapper as pcb1619, printed in red, yellow and the black key on blue paper; specific for this title, at centre, inserted in a decorated panel, outlined in blue, title: "Jack and the Bean Stalk"
Lower wrapper printed in black on blue paper; on lower wrapper, inside the frame, publishers' advertisements: "Warne's Nursery Literature. | Aunt Friendly's Toy Books. | In imperial 16mo., Threepence each, picture covers, each containing Six large Plates printed | in Six colours; or, on Linen, Sixpence each. | A Completely New Series of Nursery Favourites, | In the Best style of Colour Printing, from Original Designs, by first-class Artists. | [two column, first] First Series, Comprising | Red Riding-Hood. | Little Totty. | Cinderella. | Royal Alphabet. | The House that Jack Built. | A, Apple Pie. | Domestic Animals. | Nursery Songs. | Nursery Ditties. | Mother Hubbard. | Cock Robin. | Nursery Rhymes. | [second] Second Series, Comprising | The Frog Who Would A Wooing Go. | The Three Little Pigs. | Sing-a-Sing of Sixpence. | The Ugly Duckling. | Puss in Boots | Dame Trot and Her Cat. | The Old Woman and Her Pig. | Tom Thumb. | The Three Bears. | Jack and the Bean Stalk. | Diamonds and Toads. | Hop o' My Thumb. | What has been done by Aunt Louisa's Toy Books at 1s., and Warne's | Large Picture Toys at 6d. each, has, with greater perfection that in either of | these now celebrated Series, been accomplished in these Threepenny Books – viz., | making them the very Best and Cheapest Nursery Books ever published. | Alphabets, Spelling Boks, &c. | In demy 8vo., price 1s., cloth, gilt lettering. | The Victoria Picture Spelling Book. Compiled and edited by L.V., with Three | Hundred and Eighty-four Illustrations. | Demy 8vo., price 1s., cloth cover. | Everlasting Victoria Primer. One Hundred and Fifty Illustrations printed | on fine linen. | Price 1s., on cards, in wrapper. | The Alexandra Alphabet. In Letters of Gold, with Coloured Pictures; and Little Words for Little Learners. | Frederick Warne & Co., Bedford Street, Covent Garden."
Illustrations
6 illustrations, one per page, unsigned, printed in red, yellow, brown, blue, brown and the black key block by Kronheim & Co.
Source for date
List of titles on lower wrapper and endpapers
NOTES
First and last leaf pasted to upper and lower wrappers and included in pagination
Title and publication information from upper wrapper, which serves as title page, and from lower wrapper publishers' advertisements
COPIES
BL: 12808.de.1. (single title not described (series description and shelfmark))
TRADE COPIES
The Glass Key: 19180 (not analysed; on sale in 2019)
CITATION
Francesca Tancini, "Jack and the Bean Stalk". In PiCoBoo, accessed October 10, 2026, https://www.picoboo.eu/catalogue/pcb1633