Jack the giant killer :
a hero celebrated by ancient historians.

Description

Related Names

Craig, W. M. (William Marshall), ca. 1765-ca. 1834.
Lee, John, d. 1804.
Rusher, John Golby, 1784-1877.

Language(s)

English

Published

Banbury [Oxfordshire] : Printed by J.G. Rusher, [1820?]

Subjects

Chapbooks > Chapbooks / Specimens.
Giants > Giants / Juvenile literature.
Giants > Giants / Folklore.
Publishers' paper bindings (Binding) > Publishers' paper bindings (Binding) / England > Publishers' paper bindings (Binding) / England / 19th century.
Chapbooks > Chapbooks / England > Chapbooks / England / Banbury (Oxfordshire) > Chapbooks / England / Banbury (Oxfordshire) / 19th century
Fairy tales > Fairy tales / England > Fairy tales / England / 19th century

Note

Includes 8 woodcuts.
First sentence: "Kind Reader, Jack makes you a bow, The hero of giants the dread; Whom king and the princess applaud For valour, whence tyranny fled."
Chapbook with 6 wood engravings used as illustrations for the story (one repeated on title page), as well an unrelated full-page engraving of a fugitive soldier attributed in Osborne Coll. to John Lee after W.M. Craig. All are included in Pearson.
Various sources, cited below, date the chapbooks in Rusher's "halfpenny series" between 1820 and 1840.
In verse and prose.

Physical Description

15, [1] p. : ill. (wood engravings) ; 10 x 7 cm.

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