The lively history of Jack & the beanstalk
Subtitle: setting forth for the first time during many years a faithful and particular account of that hero's wonderful adventures in the country of the beanstalk, and his triumph over the murderous giant who inhabited it : the history being told by Harriet Jackson, the possessor of the ms. documents of Jack's family, and pictures painted by a young master, CWC
Contributors: Cope, Charles West, 1811-1890, ill; Cundall, Joseph, 1818-1895, publisher; Whittingham, Charles, 1795-1876, printer; Summerly, Felix, 1808-1882
Series: Home treasury
Publisher: Imprinted by C.W. for Felix Summerly's Home treasury and sold by Joseph Cundall, at 12 Old Bond Street in the City of Westminster
Published: 1844
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 32
Other titles: Lively history of Jack and the beanstalk; Jack and the bean-stalk; Jack and the beanstalk. English.
Notes: Printer named on p. 32.

The four plates, tinted in sepia, are engraved on wood after C.W. Cope.

Felix Summerly is the pseudonym of Sir Henry Cole; Harriet Jackson is a pseudonym for Harriet Taylor Mill, wife of John Stuart Mill. Cf. The making of the Home Treasury by Geoffrey Summerfield (Children's literature, vol. 8, 1980, p. 35-52.)..

Osborne Coll. II, 594