CRUIKSHANK, George.

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Hop O'-my Thumb; The History of Jack & the Bean Stalk; Cinderella and the Glass Slipper. Collected edition of the first three titles of Cruikshank's illustrated Fairy Library. The series "contained some of his best drawings" (Mitchell, p. 146) and "remain fascinating museum-pieces of moralism" (Zipes, p. 38).Hop O'-my Thumb, Jack & the Bean Stalk, and Cinderella were published in green wrappers by David Bogue between 1853 and 1854. The final story in the series, Puss in Boots, was published by Routledge in 1864, and a complete collected edition followed. The present collection, unrecorded by Cohn, was likely put together by Bogue or his successors at some point after 1854, using leftover sheets.

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