Jack and the bean stalk

pcb2523
pcb2523
TITLE
Jack and the bean stalk.
PUBLISHED
London ; New York : George Routledge & Co., [1856].
PRINTED
[London] : Edmund Evans.
PRICE
6d.
AUTHOR
Evans, Edmund (engraver and printer)
George Routledge & Co. (publisher)
TYPOLOGY
DESCRIPTION
Untraced
Illustrations
8 illustrations, unsigned, engraved and printed in black by Evans, hand-coloured
Source for attribution
Comparison with other titles of the series (engraver and printer)
Source for date
Listed in Routledge's wholesale catalogue of June 1856 as no. 38 of Aunt Mavor's picture books for little readers
Documents state first edition in July / August 1856 and reissues until March 1857
Listed in Routledge's wholesale catalogue of September 1857 as no. 38 of Aunt Mavor's toy books
Reissued after 1860 as no. 38 of Aunt Mavor's toy books [new series] (see pcb2978)
Reissued as no. [19] of Routledge's new sixpenny toy books series, but apparently never listed as such in publishers' advertisements
PRINTING TECHNIQUES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2006 Masaki, I.393 (seeĀ pcb2478), 404-05
DRAWINGS, OBJECTS, DOCUMENTS
Documents
UCL-RKP: RKP 9 (p. 331: "Mavor's toy books 3rd series, 1856 Aug. 4, 1st edition 4000", 378: "Aunt Mavor's toys 3rd series nos. 27 to 39. 1856 July 22 1st edition 4000. 1857 March 10, 2nd edition 2000.")
CITATION
Francesca Tancini, "Jack and the bean stalk". In PiCoBoo, accessed November 14, 2024, https://www.picoboo.eu/catalogue/pcb2523