By Anonymous
London   Frederick Warne
13" by 10" 1-12 [1] pp
Beautifully illustrated with sixteen full colour plates from Henry Matthew Brock, this is a wonderful and very scarce first edition thus of this popular fairy tale.
By Anonymous

1916 Jack the Giant Killer

London   Frederick Warne
13" by 10" 1-12 [1] pp
Beautifully illustrated with sixteen full colour plates from Henry Matthew Brock, this is a wonderful and very scarce first edition thus of this popular fairy tale.
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Description

Colour Plates, First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, Very Scarce

A very scarce edition of the classic Cornish tale of farmer's son Jack who slays a number of cruel and destructive giants during the reign of King Arthur.

Illustrated with eight tipped in bright full colour plates, each retaining the original captioned tissue guard. Collated, complete.

These illustrations are the work of celebrated British illustrator and landscape painter Henry Matthew Brock, one of four brothers - among them Charles Edmund Brock - who were renowned for their illustrations in the late Victorian and Edwardian eras.

Undated; dated 1916 via WorldCat. The first edition thus; the first single volume edition of 'Jack the Giant Killer' featuring Brock's plates, bound without any other works.

A wonderfully illustrated and very scarce edition of this classic folk tale.

Condition

In the publisher's original cloth binding, with colour pictorial onlay to front board. Bumping to back strip head and tail. Light fading to back strip tail. Light ink marks to onlay. Internally, firmly bound. Significant spotting to title page, with following pages clean and bright. Plates exceptionally bright.

Very Good

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