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The house that Jack built. - London : Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, [1859]. Variant B: [1859]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.R Box VIII (xi))
The house that Jack built. - London : Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, [1859]. Variant B: [1859]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.R Box VIII (xi))
The house that Jack built. - London : Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, [1859]. Variant B: [1859]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.R Box VIII (xi))
The house that Jack built. - London : Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, [1859]. Variant B: [1859]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.R Box VIII (xi))
The house that Jack built. - London : Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, [1859]. Variant B: [1859]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.R Box VIII (xi))
The house that Jack built. - London : Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, [1859]. Variant B: [1859]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.R Box VIII (xi))
The house that Jack built. - London : Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, [1859]. Variant B: [1859]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.R Box VIII (xi))

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The house that Jack built. - London : Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, [1859]. Variant B: [1859]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.R Box VIII (xi))
The house that Jack built. - London : Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, [1859]. Variant B: [1859]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.R Box VIII (xi))
The house that Jack built. - London : Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, [1859]. Variant B: [1859]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.R Box VIII (xi))
The house that Jack built. - London : Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, [1859]. Variant B: [1859]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.R Box VIII (xi))
The house that Jack built. - London : Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, [1859]. Variant B: [1859]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.R Box VIII (xi))
The house that Jack built. - London : Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, [1859]. Variant B: [1859]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.R Box VIII (xi))
The house that Jack built. - London : Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, [1859]. Variant B: [1859]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.R Box VIII (xi))

TITLE

The house that Jack built.

PUBLISHED

London : Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, [1859].

PRINTED

[London] : Edmund Evans.

SERIES

Aunt Mavor's toy books [new series] : 39
Aunt Mavor's everlasting toy books

PRICE

6d.
1s. : "Mounted with Cloth, and Cloth Covers"

AUTHOR

Evans, Edmund (engraver and printer)
Routledge, Warne, and Routledge (publisher)

TYPOLOGY

Toy book

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 pcb2524, 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 July 1877 with a total of 22000 copies
Before 1859, publishers' advertisements listed this title as no. 13 of Aunt Mavor's picture books for little readers [third series] (see pcb2524)
Reissued as no. [20] of Routledge's new sixpenny toy books series, but only listed as such in 1878 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

Chromo-relief
Relief
Hand-colouring

VARIANTS

Variant A
[1859]: on paper: untraced
Variant B
[1859]: everlasting; upper wrapper uniform for the series, the same as pcb2600, but on yellow paper, mounted on cardboard, inside illustrations mounted on cloth; at foot, inside the red frame: "LONDON: | ROUTLEDGE, WARNE, & ROUTLEDGE."; specific for this title: title: "[red, outlined in black] THE HOUSE | [black] THAT | [red, outlined in black] JACK BUILT"; picture from p. 1, with pictorial title cut out; 1859 lower wrapper uniform for the series, the same as pcb2935, printed in black on yellow 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."

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2006 Masaki, I.405-06

COPIES

NAL: 60.R Box VIII (xi) (variant B: [1859])
NLS: AP.2.94.9 (described as: "Routledge, Warne, & Routledge ... Aunt Mavor's everlasting toy books"; not analysed)

DRAWINGS, OBJECTS, DOCUMENTS

Documents
UCL-RKP: RKP 9 (p. 506: "House that Jack Built (Mavor's Toys), 1859 Aug. 2, 2000. 1860 Aug. 8, 2000. 1861 Oct. 1, 2000. 1862 July 28, 2000. 1863 July 1, 2000. 1864 April 1, 2000. Oct. 18, 2000. 1865 Oct. 30, 2000. 1870 July 1, 2000. 1872 April 9, 2000. 1877 July 1, 2000.")

OTHER VERSIONS

First published as
The house that Jack built. - London ; New York : George Routledge & Co., [1856]

OCLCN

1008510897

PERMALINK

https://www.picoboo.eu/catalogue/pcb2990

CITATION

Francesca Tancini, "The house that Jack built". In PiCoBoo, accessed July 11, 2025, https://www.picoboo.eu/catalogue/pcb2990