First edition thus of this scarce chapbook in two parts, containing the giant-slaying exploits of a farmer's son in Arthurian England.
Very good overall.
Price: $600.00
"I am a giant with three heads, and besides thou knowest I can fight 500 men in armor and make them flee like chaff before the wind."
The classic tale of Jack the Giant-Killer was featured in chapbooks as early as 1711; widely available chapbooks "contained all the popular literature of four centuries" in a simplified and inexpensive form, making stories accessible to new audiences (Darnton, 81). Produced with cost reduction as a priority, chapbook publishers were known to re-use illustrations widely, a practice on full display in JACK AND THE GIANTS: one kingly illustration looks to have come straight out of a 15th-century work. A remarkable survival of a particularly ephemeral edition.
Read more: F. J. Harvey Darnton, Children's books in England; William Coolidge Lane, Catalogue of English and American Chap-Books and Broadside Ballads in Harvard College Library, item 512; The Osborne Collection of Early Children's books, page 603; Gumuchian, Les Livres de l'Enfance, item 3152.
Nottingham: The Running Stationers, [circa 1790]. 6.5'' x 3.75''. Self-wrappers with titles and woodcuts to front. Each with four woodcuts. 12; 12 pages, uncut, collated complete. Disbound. Some edgewear and chipping; folds of the first part tender. Quite attractive.
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