The Giant Ogre falls asleep. Hop 'o My Thumb pulls off the Seven League Boots whilst his Brothers run away.

George Cruikshank, 1792-1878

1853

engraving

11.8 x 9.5 cm

Facing The page 26 in George Cruikshank's Fairy Library.

The story was originally issued in a thirty-page, paperback format, 18 cm high by 13 cm wide, with six engravings, including a frontispiece, number nine in the series.

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