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    Jack The Giant-Killer And Beauty & The Beast - Illustrated by R. Anning Bell (The Banbury Cross Series)
    Jack The Giant-Killer And Beauty & The Beast - Illustrated by R. Anning Bell (The Banbury Cross Series)
    Jack The Giant-Killer And Beauty & The Beast - Illustrated by R. Anning Bell (The Banbury Cross Series)
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    Jack The Giant-Killer And Beauty & The Beast - Illustrated by R. Anning Bell (The Banbury Cross Series)

    By R. Anning Bell

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    The Banbury Cross Series was a collection of 12 volumes of books edited by Grace Rhys and published in London by Dent in the 1890s. Each book is attractively illustrated with full page and partial page pen and ink drawings in a classic Art Nouveau style by leading artists of the era. This title, Jack the Giant-Killer and Beauty & the Beast is accompanied by the sophisticated black and white open line work of Bell. His drawings perfectly convey the wickedness of the giant and the gentleness and compassion of Beauty. About the Illustrator: Robert Anning Bell (1863 - 1933) was an English artist and painter. He and a group of fellow artist-craftsmen brought about the last bloom of the Pre-Raphaelite movement. As well as painting in oil and watercolour, he also worked in stained glass and mosaic. Bell's illustrations are close in style to his contemporary Charles Ricketts. Many of the earliest children's books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Pook Press are working to republish these classic works in affordable, high quality editions, using the original text and artwork so these works can delight another generation of children.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPook Press
    Release dateJan 31, 2018
    ISBN9781528782203
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      Jack The Giant-Killer And Beauty & The Beast - Illustrated by R. Anning Bell (The Banbury Cross Series) - R. Anning Bell

      To Brian and Margaret.

      IN this little book you will find two of the most famous tales that have ever come to us from Fairyland. Jack the Giant-Killer is an old English tale, and Beauty and the Beast is an old French tale. But no matter for that: for both French Beauty and English Jack come from the same far country, which some people say is really no country at all; and that is Fairyland. Both tales are so old, indeed, that no one can say who first brought them and told them to children long ago. They were told to me when I was little, and to my mother when she was little, and to my grandmother when she was little; and they will go on being told still for many a long year.

      It is our dear Hans Andersen, I think, who says they were brought to us at first by the Fairy Godmother,—an old, old woman, with a wise, kind, wrinkled face, and a merry eye. She wears a scarlet cloak and a high peaked hat. Perhaps she saw the very things that are here told,—Jack and the Giants, and Beauty and the wonderful Beast who was really a Prince.

      And now you may see them just as well in the pictures in this little book, which make our old tales look new again. With pictures or without, it is the old tales, after all, which are the best.

      GRACE RHYS.

      Jack the Giant-Killer.

      IN the reign of King Arthur, there lived in the county of Cornwall, near the Land’s End of England, a wealthy farmer who had one only son called Jack. He was brisk and of a ready lively wit, so that whatever he could not perform by force and strength, he did by his quick wit and cleverness. Never was any person heard of that could worst him, and he very often even baffled wise men by his sharp and ready invention.

      In those days the Mount of Cornwall was kept by a huge and monstrous giant of eighteen feet in height, and about three yards in girth, of a fierce and grim face, the terror of all the towns and villages near. He lived in a cave in the midst of the mount, and would not suffer any one else to live near him. His food was other men’s cattle, which often became his prey, for whensoever he wanted food he would wade over to the mainland, where he would furnish himself with whatever came in his way. The good folk, at his approach, forsook their homes, while he seized on their cattle, making nothing of carrying half-a-dozen oxen on his back at a time; and as for their sheep and hogs, he would tie them round his waist like a bunch of bandeliers. This course he had followed for many years, so that all Cornwall had become poor through his robberies.

      One day Jack, happening to be present at the town hall when

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