• Jack and the bean stalk. - London : Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, [1859]. Variant B: [1859]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (B.LB.ROUT.JA.1860)
  • Jack and the bean stalk. - London : Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, [1859]. Variant B: [1859]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (B.LB.ROUT.JA.1860)
  • Jack and the bean stalk. - London : Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, [1859]. Variant B: [1859]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (B.LB.ROUT.JA.1860)
  • Jack and the bean stalk. - London : Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, [1859]. Variant B: [1859]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (B.LB.ROUT.JA.1860)
  • Jack and the bean stalk. - London : Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, [1859]. Variant B: [1859]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (B.LB.ROUT.JA.1860)
  • Jack and the bean stalk. - London : Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, [1859]. Variant B: [1859]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (B.LB.ROUT.JA.1860)
  • Jack and the bean stalk. - London : Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, [1859]. Variant B: [1859]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (B.LB.ROUT.JA.1860)
  • Jack and the bean stalk. - London : Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, [1859]. Variant B: [1859]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (B.LB.ROUT.JA.1860)
  • Jack and the bean stalk. - London : Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, [1859]. Variant B: [1859]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (B.LB.ROUT.JA.1860)
  • Jack and the bean stalk. - London : Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, [1859]. Variant C: [1865] © The Trustees of the British Museum (1932,0321.34)
Jack and the bean stalk

pcb2978
pcb2978
  • Jack and the bean stalk. - London : Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, [1859]. Variant B: [1859]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (B.LB.ROUT.JA.1860)
  • Jack and the bean stalk. - London : Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, [1859]. Variant B: [1859]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (B.LB.ROUT.JA.1860)
  • Jack and the bean stalk. - London : Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, [1859]. Variant B: [1859]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (B.LB.ROUT.JA.1860)
  • Jack and the bean stalk. - London : Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, [1859]. Variant B: [1859]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (B.LB.ROUT.JA.1860)
  • Jack and the bean stalk. - London : Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, [1859]. Variant B: [1859]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (B.LB.ROUT.JA.1860)
  • Jack and the bean stalk. - London : Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, [1859]. Variant B: [1859]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (B.LB.ROUT.JA.1860)
  • Jack and the bean stalk. - London : Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, [1859]. Variant B: [1859]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (B.LB.ROUT.JA.1860)
  • Jack and the bean stalk. - London : Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, [1859]. Variant B: [1859]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (B.LB.ROUT.JA.1860)
  • Jack and the bean stalk. - London : Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, [1859]. Variant B: [1859]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (B.LB.ROUT.JA.1860)
  • Jack and the bean stalk. - London : Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, [1859]. Variant C: [1865] © The Trustees of the British Museum (1932,0321.34)
TITLE
Jack and the bean stalk.
VARIANT TITLE
Title from page 1
Jack and the bean-stalk.
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)
Routledge, Warne, and Routledge (publisher)
TYPOLOGY
DESCRIPTION
Size
24,5x17,5 cm
Format and pagination
8° : 8 ll.
Signatures
A8
Signatures note
1 gathering, sewn, paginated 1-8
Illustrations
8 illustrations, unsigned, possibly the same as pcb2523, engraved and printed by Evans in black on one side of the sheet only and hand-coloured; text and illustration on the same side of the sheet
Source for attribution
Statement of responsibility (engraver and printer)
Source for date
List of titles on lower wrapper
Documents state first edition in August 1859 and reissues until August 1872 with a total of 18000 copies
Before 1859, publishers' advertisements listed this title as no. 12 of Aunt Mavor's picture books for little readers [third series] (see pcb2523)
Reissued as no. [19] of Routledge's new sixpenny toy books series, but apparently never listed as such in publishers' advertisements
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
[1859]: on paper: untraced
Variant B
[1859]: everlasting; upper wrapper uniform for the series, the same as pcb2600, variant B, printed in red and black on green paper, mounted on cardboard, inside illustrations mounted on cloth; at foot, inside the red frame: "LONDON: | ROUTLEDGE, WARNE, & ROUTLEDGE."; specific for this title: title: "[fancy, red, outlined in black] JACK | [black] AND THE | [plain, red, outlined in black] BEAN STALK"; 1859 lower wrapper uniform for the series, the same as pcb2600, variant B, printed in black on green paper; at foot, inside the frame: "LONDON: ROUTLEDGE, WARNE, AND ROUTLEDGE, FARRINGDON STREET."; at foot, outside the frame: "EDMUND EVANS, ENGRAVER AND PRINTER, RAQUET COURT, FLEET STREET."
Variant C
[1865]: upper wrapper printed in red and black on yellow paper; at head, inside the red frame, in black: "AUNT MAVOR'S TOY BOOKS. | Price SIXPENCE; or Mounted on Linen, ONE SHILLING."; at foot, inside the red frame, in black: "LONDON: | GEORGE ROUTLEDGE & SONS."; lower wrapper not analysed
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2006 Masaki, I.404-05
COPIES
BM: 1932,0321.34 (variant C: [1865]; partially analysed through digital reproductions)
NAL-ReC: B.LB.ROUT.JA.1860 (variant B: [1859])
DRAWINGS, OBJECTS, DOCUMENTS
Documents
UCL-RKP: RKP 9 (p. 506: "Jack & Beanstalk (Mavor's Toys), 1859 Aug. 2, 2000. 1860 Aug. 8, 2000. 1862 Jan. 1, 2000. 1863 Oct., 2000. 1864 May 3, 2000. 1865 Sep. 1, 2000. 1867 July 23, 2000. 1870 July 1, 2000. 1872 Aug. 20, 2000.")
OCLCN
CITATION
Francesca Tancini, "Jack and the bean stalk". In PiCoBoo, accessed November 14, 2024, https://www.picoboo.eu/catalogue/pcb2978