The Story of Jack and the Giants [Sir David Salomon's Copy]

London: Griffith and Farran, 1858. Very Good. London: Griffith and Farran, 1858. New Edition. Slim octavo; contemporary half gilt-ruled morocco over green cloth by John Bumpus, gilt-tooled spine in six compartments, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, pictorial cloth from the original binding bound in front, viii,[9]-56pp.; hand-colored frontispiece and added title page plus six leaves of hand-colored plates. Leather apparently toned to brown (tipped in description from the auction of the Salomon library describes the leather as "green"), extremities a bit rubbed, some light spotting to both covers; overall Very Good, contents clean and colored plates remain quite brilliant.

Contemporary armorial ex libris to front pastedown of Sir David Salomon (1797-1873), the British Liberal politician who served as London's first Jewish Sheriff in 1855.