Author: Cruikshank, George.
Title: Hop-O' My-Thumb and the Seven League Boots [Facsimile Editions, Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books, Toronto Public Library].
Description: London / Tokyo Bodley Head / Holp Shuppan, 1982. Paperback small, very good plus condition, card cover, full-page black & white drawings, in cardboard slipcase. 34 pp. Facsimile edition. Facsimile of a children's story of a drunken father abandoning his children who then encounter an ogre: being an adaptation of an old fairy tale, but here rewritten to support the temperance movement. Charles Dickens severely criticised changing the words of old fairy tales. Originally published by David Bogue, London, in 1853, as part of George Cruikshank's Fairy Library. (One of a set of 35 handsome facsimiles in 28 slipcases.).

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