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The House that Jack Built...To which is added some account of Jack Jingle. Shewing by what means he acquired his learning, and in consequence thereof got rich, and built himself a house. With a collection of riddles written by him. The whole adorned with variety of cuts by Master Collett...Lodnon [sic] printed and sold by John Marshall, No.4 Aldermary Church-Yard...and No.17 Queen-Street, Cheapside, n.d. [c.1790].
Half-sheet 32° (103 x 65mm). Collation: [A.6] A1 and A16 [advertisement] pastedowns. Framed cut of Gog and Magog as frontispiece, with text, on A1.; 10 square cuts for "The House that Jack Built" (the last with a diagonal break) and fifteen unframed cuts for riddles etc. Colour-dabbed paper covers, worn. Housed in a maroon linen case lined with marbled paper. Provenance: George Parker his Book 1798 George Parker's Book 1802. A + M no.56.
Three stages in the progress of this House That Jack Built are recorded in ESTC (1990): two 16° editions proceeding successively from Bow and then Aldermary Church Yard (t 190834 and t 100712); these are followed by John Marshall's 32° edition, initially only from Aldermary (n 007745). This copy represents a fourth stage, being published from Marshall's two addresses.
Half-sheet 32° (103 x 65mm). Collation: [A.6] A1 and A16 [advertisement] pastedowns. Framed cut of Gog and Magog as frontispiece, with text, on A1.; 10 square cuts for "The House that Jack Built" (the last with a diagonal break) and fifteen unframed cuts for riddles etc. Colour-dabbed paper covers, worn. Housed in a maroon linen case lined with marbled paper. Provenance: George Parker his Book 1798 George Parker's Book 1802. A + M no.56.
Three stages in the progress of this House That Jack Built are recorded in ESTC (1990): two 16° editions proceeding successively from Bow and then Aldermary Church Yard (t 190834 and t 100712); these are followed by John Marshall's 32° edition, initially only from Aldermary (n 007745). This copy represents a fourth stage, being published from Marshall's two addresses.