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The history of Jack and the bean-stalk : printed from the original manuscript, never before published.

Accession number
PML 83154
Published
London : Printed for B. Tabart ..., 1807.
Notes
Advertisement on rear wrapper identifies this as part of the series Popular nursery tales . (Series called Popular stories in ad on True history of a little old woman. Tabart, 1808). Ads list illustrators as [W.M.] Craig and [?Richard] Corbould.
Ill. hand colored.
Inscription: Charles Hurt ... 1809.
On front wrapper: Price sixpence.
On verso of t.p.: C. Squire, Printer ...
Publisher's advertisements, pp. 34-[36], front and rear wrappers.
Series editor previously thought to be William Godwin, but more likely was Mary Jane Godwin, his 2nd wife. See P. Marshall's biography of Godwin, p. 265.
Description
34, [2] p., [3] leaves of plates : ill. (engravings) ; 13 cm
Binding
Printed yellow wrappers.
Classification
Department