128 printed pages, all with frame. Printed title page and chromolithographed title-page. Profusely decorated with chromolithographed vignette illustrations. Contains the House the Jack Built, Jack and the Bean Stalk, Old Mother hubbard, Jack the Giant Killer, Cinderella, Cock Robin, Little Red Riding Hood, and the Three Bears. Golden Thought & Tartan Series, 56. Old cloth tape repair before first page that extends around the sewn gatherings, leading to some being very slightly sprung. Original cream endpapers. Contemporary ink presentation inscription on front free endpaper. Provenance: A[ustin]. Metcalf, Vicar of Hellingly. Metcalf received a stipend to attend Corpus Christi College, Cambridge before he became a vicar of Hellingly, a village in East Sussex. 67 x 92mm. Original chromolithographed boards. Salmon spine with powder blue oval cartouches with titling and publisher's name. Back cover with elaborate yellow advertisement for Mellins Food on blue ground, "These are a few specimens out of many thousands of healthy children reared on Mellins Food". On the front cover is the title in red on salmon ground above four vignettes illustrating some of the content and with their titles too, on cornflour blue ground. Very slightly faded and lightly handled. Spine wrinkled from old repair underneath. Garbett, 52. Not in Bondy, nor Spielmann. Welsh, 5160. OCLC number, 17568793 WorldCat locates 10 copies worldwide, but not in British Library. No date but WorldCat states [1892]. The 1892 Spectator commented " so small that it will go, one might say, anywhere, contains eight stories, old friends such as " Jack and the Beanstalk," " Cinderella," and " Little Red-Riding Hood." It is one of the neatest little things that we have seen this season."