Jack the giant killer

15, [1] p. : ill. (wood engravings) ; 10 x 7 cm. In verse and prose Various sources, cited below, date the chapbooks in Rusher's "halfpenny series" between 1820 and 1840 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 Osborne Coll Pearson, E. Banbury chap books BM 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." Includes 8 woodcuts Copy in McGill Library's Rare Books and Special Collections: bound with The history of Dick Whittington, Lord Mayor of London: with the adventures of his cat. Banbury: Printed by J.G. Rusher,[ca. 1820]. Bound together subsequent to publication with 4 other chapbooks, with binder's title: Banbury Chapbooks. 8 hand-coloured woodcuts. Woodcut of "Fugitive Soldier" was designed by Craig and engraved by Lee. Bound in brown calf by wood, London. Gumuchian - #1581. Osborne - p.33. Hockliffe Collection - p.3. Banbury Chapbooks - Pearson - pp.27, 33. St. Andrews, N.B. Antique Show July/83 $10.00 for 5 chapbooks. Battledore. New York -'83 - $20.00; Hobbyhorse Books. Ho Ho Kus, N.J. - $175 for this one