Jack and Jill and Old Dame Gill

Item Details

Jack and Jill and Old Dame Gill, London, England, Printed for the Booksellers, n.d., 3 1/8 x 2 inches, 6pp.

Original blue string-bound printed wrapper. Light chipping to edges. Booklet pages overlap wrapper. Light soiling. Interior is clean. Good condition.

Juvenile chapbook probably from the mid 19th century. A somewhat violent re-telling of Jack and Jill complete with several beatings from Old Dame Gill.  16 woodcuts.

There are numerous 19th century examples of the Jack and Jill nursery rhyme in a similar small chapbook format. In scrolling through OCLC, we do not find this exact issue. No printer or publisher listed. 13 titles listed on back wrapper. Perhaps an unrecorded variant.