• Jack the giant killer. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1859]. Variant B: [1865]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.W.285)
  • Jack the giant killer. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1859]. Variant B: [1865]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.W.285)
  • Jack the giant killer. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1859]. Variant B: [1865]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.W.285)
  • Jack the giant killer. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1859]. Variant B: [1865]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.W.285)
  • Jack the giant killer. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1859]. Variant B: [1865]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.W.285)
  • Jack the giant killer. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1859]. Variant B: [1865]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.W.285)
  • Jack the giant killer. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1859]. Variant B: [1865]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.W.285)
  • Jack the giant killer. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1859]. Variant B: [1865]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.W.285)
  • Jack the giant killer. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1859]. Variant B: [1865]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.W.285)
Jack the giant killer

pcb2649
pcb2649
  • Jack the giant killer. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1859]. Variant B: [1865]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.W.285)
  • Jack the giant killer. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1859]. Variant B: [1865]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.W.285)
  • Jack the giant killer. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1859]. Variant B: [1865]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.W.285)
  • Jack the giant killer. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1859]. Variant B: [1865]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.W.285)
  • Jack the giant killer. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1859]. Variant B: [1865]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.W.285)
  • Jack the giant killer. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1859]. Variant B: [1865]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.W.285)
  • Jack the giant killer. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1859]. Variant B: [1865]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.W.285)
  • Jack the giant killer. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1859]. Variant B: [1865]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.W.285)
  • Jack the giant killer. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1859]. Variant B: [1865]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.W.285)
TITLE
Jack the giant killer.
PUBLISHED
London : Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, [1859].
London : George Routledge & Sons, [1865].
PRINTED
[London] : Edmund Evans.
PRICE
6d.
1s. : "Mounted with Cloth, and Cloth Covers"
AUTHOR
Evans, Edmund (engraver and printer)
George Routledge & Sons (publisher)
Routledge, Warne, and Routledge (publisher)
Portch, Julian John (illustrator)
TYPOLOGY
DESCRIPTION
Size
24x17,5 cm
Format and pagination
8° : 8 ll.
Signatures
A8
Signatures note
1 gathering, sewn, paginated 1-8
Contents
1-8, text and wood-engraved vignettes
Illustrations
8 illustrations, signed "J. PORTCH" or "JULIAN PORTCH" on pp. 1, 3-8, engraved, signed "E. Evans" on pp. 4-5 and printed in red, light blue, yellow, ochre and the black key on one side of the sheet only by Evans; text and illustration on the same side of the sheet
Source for attribution
Signature (illustrator)
Signature (engraver)
Statement of responsibility (engraver and printer)
Source for date
List of titles on lower wrapper
Documents
Before 1859, publishers' advertisements listed pcb2647 (with same title, series name and number, but different contents) as no. 21 of the series
Even if the 1860 issue has not been traced, comparisons with other titles of the series allow to state that until 1865 inside illustrations were printed in black and hand-coloured and were printed in colour only after 1865
Reissued as no. 4 of Routledge's new sixpenny toy books series (see pcb2802) and listed as such in publishers' advertisements since 1866 (see pcb2635, variant B)
NOTES
Printed on one side of the sheet only; first and last page pasted to upper and lower wrappers
Title and publication information from upper wrapper, which serves as title page, and from lower wrapper publishers' advertisements
Documents make no difference between this title as belonging to Aunt Mavor's toy books series or to Routledge's new sixpenny toy books series
PRINTING TECHNIQUES
VARIANTS
Variant A
[1860]: untraced
Variant B
[1865]; everlasting; upper wrapper uniform for the series, printed in red and black on yellow paper (note that the only copy traced is not mounted on cloth); inserted in a plain red frame, at head: "AUNT MAVOR'S EVERLASTING TOY BOOKS. | PRICE ONE SHILLING"; at centre, picture; at foot: "LONDON: | GEORGE ROUTLEDGE & SONS"; specific for this title: title: "[fancy, red, outlined in black] JACK | [black] THE | [plain, red, outlined in black] GIANT KILLER"; picture from p. 1, signed "J. PORTCH"; 1865 lower wrapper uniform for the series, printed in black on yellow paper with publishers' advertisements: "AUNT MAVOR'S TOY BOOKS. | [...] | [two columns, first: 12, 14-36; second: 37-59]"; at foot, inside the frame: "LONDON: | GEORGE ROUTLEDGE AND SONS, | BROADWAY, LUDGATE HILL."; outside the frame: "EDMUND EVANS, ENGRAVER AND PRINTER, RAQUET COURT, FLEET STREET."
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2006 Masaki, I.382-83
COPIES
NAL: 60.W.285 (erroneously described as: "[Otley] : Printed for the booksellers, [1860?]; Imprint on back cover: "Otley: Yorkshire J.S. Publishing & Stationery Co. Limited.", etc."; despite the caption at head of upper wrapper, the copy is not mounted on cloth but plain, but it has been rebound and underwent conservation)
DRAWINGS, OBJECTS, DOCUMENTS
Documents
UCL-RKP: RKP 9 (p. 493: "Jack the Giant Killer (Mavor's toys) 1859 Dec. 2, 2000. 1860 Sep. 1, 2000. 1862 Jan. 27, 2000. Oct. 21, 2000. 1864 April 1, 2000. Oct. 18, 2000. 1866 July 2, 5000. 1872 Jan. 1, 4000.")
CITATION
Francesca Tancini, "Jack the giant killer". In PiCoBoo, accessed November 14, 2024, https://www.picoboo.eu/catalogue/pcb2649