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London: David Bogue. Good+ with No dust jacket as issued. [1854]. First Edition. Softcover. Covers rubbed with dust stains. Spine rubbed. No signatures. Moderate foxing. Early bookseller's blindstamp on inside of front cover, Kelly Slater / 129 Market St / Manchester. ; No date [1854]. 32 pages + 6 plates (including frontispiece). Blue printed papered card covers. Page dimensions: 175 x 132mm. Illustrated with etchings by George Cruikshank. The 6 plates have 8 illustrations in total (one of the plates has 3 illustrations). Rear cover with advertisement "Preparing for Publication, No. III. Cinderella and the Glass Slipper". This is the second title in the series "George Cruikshank's Fairy Library". .
Fairy Library. The History of Jack & the Beanstalk. Edited and illustrated with six etchings by George Cruikshank. by CRUIKSHANK, George
by CRUIKSHANK, George
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Fairy Library. The History of Jack & the Beanstalk. Edited and illustrated with six etchings by George Cruikshank.
by CRUIKSHANK, George
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FIRST EDITION, sm.4to., pp.32; six etched plates, lightly spotted, well preserved in original pictorial blue wrappers; lightly dust-soiled and a little worn at extremities but sound. The second of Cruikshank's Fairy Library with advert. for nos. I & III on rear cover. This issue with plates on white paper and frontis. of 'Jack climbing the Bean Stalk'. Cohn 197.
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The History of Jack and the Bean-Stalk [George Cruikshank's Fairy Library]
by Cruikshank, George
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George Cruikshank's Fairy Library. Hop-O'-My-Thumb And The Seven-League Boots * The History of Jack & the Bean Stalk * Cinderella And The Glass Slipper
by Cruikshank, George
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- All housed in very good quarter dark green and marbled board slipcase with raised bands and red leather spine label printed in g
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ardsley, New York, United States
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London: George Routledge And Sons, 1865. Hardcover. All housed in very good quarter dark green and marbled board slipcase with raised bands and red leather spine label printed in gilt. All are 18 x 14 cm. 30, 32 and 31 pages respectively. All in original green wrappers with advert rear back cover and Cruikshank's fairy tale story of his nephew on verso of front cover. Respectively there are "Drawn and Etched" plates for each as follows: six, six & ten full page printed recto or verso only. Hop-O'My-Thumb lacks small portion of lower back cover at margin. Interior contents clean and fresh. Backstrip wear and some loss to each with Jack An The Beanstalk lacking two centimeters at backstrip foot. Again respectively, COHN 191, 192, & 193.
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