Tabart’s Improved Edition of Jack the Giant-Killer with 3 coloured plates

”Between 1801 and 1818, the imprint of "Tabart & Company at The Juvenile and School Library" is known to have published at least one hundred and seventy-four books. That is an average of a little over ten books per year, a volume of production which any early nineteenth-century publisher would envy. The majority of those books were single stories which were published individually in the small, pocket editions which had become very popular with children, and their parents. Most of these stories were drawn from traditional fairy tales or the time-honored indigenous folk tales which had been published in chapbooks for several decades. But these stories were not simply reprinted. Each was edited for content, to remove those things which might be considered inappropriate for children. The grammar was polished to bring each story up to the standards of the time, and new engravings were commissioned to illustrate the text. The improved text was properly typeset and printed, along with the new illustrations, to produce high-quality editions of these stories”.
Publications of Benjamin Tabart’s Juvenile Library

7.5cm x 12.5cm

R7,500.