Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection Shelf locator: PC-CHI BOOK-Fai Topics Fairy Tales Peasants Cottages Giants Fear Beating. Small original cloth bound book with gilt illustration and title to the front board and spine. The volume is “astonishing for its precocity” (Victorian Illustrated Books). Names Rackham, Arthur (1867-1939) (Artist) Collection. Jack the Giant killer and Beauty and the Beast illustrated by R Anning Bell published in London and by J M Dent and Co 1894. This manuscript facsimile edition was published in 1888, after Doyle’s death, with the original story and illustrations. In 1842, when he was just 18, Richard Doyle, whose natural talent for draftsmanship was matched by imaginative invention and a passion for legend and the grotesque, created a picture-book version of Jack the Giant Killer, with hand-written text and a watercolor within a pictorial border decorating every page. However, the text was substantially revised and illustrated anew. In 1842, when Doyle was only 18 years old, he created this manuscript, both text and illustrations, of Jack the Giant Killer in 1851, he finally published a book with that title. Jack and the Beanstalk, Jack escaping from the giant Vintage engraving of Scene from the story Jack the Gaint killer (Jack and the Beanstalk) by George Cruikshank. His boyhood fascination with fairy stories stayed with him all his life, and stimulated his greatest book illustrations” (Dalby, 10).
“Doyle was one of the most popular Victorian illustrators of fairy stories… always possessed an extraordinary power of fanciful and imaginative draftsmanship and sense of the grotesque. In 1842, when he was just 18, Richard Doyle, whose natural talent for draftsmanship was matched by imaginative invention and a passion for legend and the grotesque, created a picture-book version of Jack the Giant Killer, with hand-written text and a watercolor within a pictorial border decorating every page. Jack the Giant Killer (Illustrated) on Apple Books Jack the Giant Killer (Illustrated) Joseph Jacobs & Hugh Thomson 2.99 Publisher Description Jack the Giant Killer is the famous English fairy tale about a brave lad slaying hideous giants.
The story of Jack, the intrepid boy whose courage and ingenuity defeated a host of many-headed giants, has been told to children for hundreds of years. $3,800.00 Item Number: 59056įirst manuscript facsimile edition, reproduced from Richard Doyle’s original text. Slim quarto, original cloth, patterned endpapers, illustrated. Near fine in the original dust jacket with some chips and tears. Jack and the Giants was a variation on the book Jack the Giant Killer, which some of us had read or seen on Sunday afternoon television.First published in 1711, Jack the Giant Killer is a collection of fairy tales, or folk tales, about a brave and clever young Cornishman called Jack (natch) who fights and defeats various giants across England during the reign of King Arthur. Posted in Ben Day, Comic-book art, Comics, History of Printing, Illustration, lithograph, lithography, Newspaper comic strips, Pop Art, Roy Lichtenstein | Tagged A Tramp Abroad, Albrecht Dürer, Alice in Wonderland, Ally Sloper's Half Holiday, Ben Day, Ben Day dots, Benday, Benday Dots, Benjamin Henry Day Junior, bichromate, Bryan Talbot, chapbooks, Charles Gillot, chromolithography, chromoxylography, CMYK, collodion, Comic Cuts, Copper engraving, Craftint, Daguerreotype, Dalziel Brothers, Dragon’s Blood, electrotype, electrotyping, F.A.DOYLE, Richard.