#T.C. and E.C. Jack

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Staff Pick of the Week

Louey Chisholm compiled over 200 poems and an additional twenty cradle verses into The Golden Staircase Poems for Children. Chisholm’s goal when creating this book was to inspire children to not only enjoy poetry, but to pass it onto future generations, and wanted every school to have it on their shelves.

The first American edition was published in 1906. This edition published a year later features eight illustrations by English artist Minnie Dibdin Spooner which were printed by Stoddart and Malcolm in Edinburgh. The book itself was published in New York by G. P. Puntam’s Sons and in Edinburgh by T.C. and E.C. Jack. 

I was drawn initially to the book because of its dark blue cloth cover, gold-stamped on all sides with ornate Art Nouveau floral designs, which I saw almost everyday as I walked by. When I finally pulled it off the shelf, I was equally struck by Spooner’s colorful and playful illustrations and just had to share. The book forms part of our Historical Curriculum Collection and was a gift from our friends Megan Holbrook and Eric Vogel.

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-- Sarah W., Special Collections Undergraduate Intern

[heaveninawildflower]

Decorative front cover of 'Beautiful Flowers and How to Grow Them' by Horace J. Wright, Wilbur Page Wright.

Published 1922 by T.C. & E.C. Jack Ltd.

University of California Libraries

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[thebeautifulbook]

THE ART OF HERALDRY: An Encyclopædia of Armory by Arthur Charles Fox-Davis (London: T.C. & E.C Jack, 1904). Illustrated by J. Forbes Nixon

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[historicalbookimages]

🍐 Apples & pears Edinburgh, T.C. & E.C. Jack[1911]

[thebotanicalarcade]

n128_w1150 by Biodiversity Heritage Library Via Flickr: Apples & pears Edinburgh,T.C. & E.C. Jack[1911] biodiversitylibrary.org/page/17988349

[archivist-dragonfly]

Book 065

Butterflies and Moths Shown to the Children

Janet Harvey Kelman and Rev. Theodore Wood

T.C. & E.C. Jack - no date (c. 1925)

This a lovely old British field guide. There’s no pub date indicated, but there is an inscription inside that reads: “Brian Barber 17.8.25”.

[regnumveritatis]

From:-Celtic Tales. (Told To The Children)

by Louey Chisholm

Published by T.C & E.C Jack. London 1910

Illustrated by Katharine Cameron

'Grania The fair daughter of Cormac'

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'The Book of Myths', edited by Jean Lang. Illustrated by Helen Stratton. T.C. and E.C. Jack.

[immortalotma]

Grand Duchess Anastasia’s book

The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley. London and New York: T.C. and E.C. Jack, and E.P. Dutton [1905].

(150 x 120mm). 8 colour plates after Katherine Cameron. Book belonging to Grand Duchess Anastasia; manuscript label of the classroom of the youngest Grand Duchesses in the Alexander Palace, Tsarskoe Selo.

Book inscribed and presented to Grand Duchess Anastasia, by her aunt, Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine: 'To darling Anastasie from her loving Aunt and Godmama Irene for Xmas 1908.' 

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The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley
London, T.C.&.E.C. Jack Ltd
35 Paternoster Row E.C.
and Edinburg.
.1924. Artist : Anne Anderson

[samlafreniere]

Simple Susan

Unsurprisingly, Simple Susan’s depiction as the “perfect daughter” lines up beautifully with what was expected of girls and women at the time. Any bravery or cunning from Susan was only displayed in order to “help the home.” The text puts it quite plainly that: “it does not become a girl to be vain, much less bold.” Even the name of the story: “Simple Susan” implies that women and girls should be uncomplicated. From a modern point of view, Susan’s depiction would be damaging to young women who can’t be perfect no matter how hard they try.

2/10/20

Edgeworth, Maria, and Louey Chisholm. Simple Susan. T.C. & E.C. Jack, 1907.

[heaveninawildflower]

Decorative front cover taken from ‘The Art of Heraldry’ by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies.

Published 1904 by T.C. & E.C. Jack.

Boston Public Library.

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[thebeautifulbook]

THE STORY OF GREECE: Told to Boys and Girls by Mary Macgregor (London/Edinburgh: T.C. & E.C. Jack, 191_?) 19 illustrations by Walter Crane.

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[historicalbookimages]

🍃 Beautiful flowers and how to grow them Edinburgh, T.C. & E.C. Jack, ltd., 1922.

[thebotanicalarcade]

n446_w1150 by Biodiversity Heritage Library Via Flickr: Beautiful flowers and how to grow them Edinburgh,T.C. & E.C. Jack, ltd.,1922. biodiversitylibrary.org/page/21984653

[minkeybusiness]

I just added this listing on Poshmark: Flowers Shown to the Children 1908 - Color Plates.