# Benjamin Tabart

> Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Benjamin_Tabart
> Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Benjamin_Tabart.md
> Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Tabart
> Source revision: 1241629211
> License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)

**Benjamin Tabart** (1767–1833) was an English publisher and [bookseller](/source/Bookselling) of the Juvenile Library in [New Bond Street](/source/New_Bond_Street), London. Many of the books in his list were written by himself. In an age of strictly moralizing [children's literature](/source/Children's_literature), he broke ground with his [fairy tales](/source/Fairy_tale) and light-hearted [nursery stories](/source/Nursery_rhyme) and [chapbook](/source/Chapbook) tales.[1] His (1807) publication is the most influential version of the tale of [Jack and the Beanstalk](/source/Jack_and_the_Beanstalk).[2]

Tabart had for an editor Mary Jane Clairmont, the second wife of [William Godwin](/source/William_Godwin), and maintained close professional relations with the prolific publisher, [Sir Richard Phillips](/source/Sir_Richard_Phillips).

The standard bibliography of Tabart's production is Marjorie Moon, *Benjamin Tabart's Juvenile Library: A Bibliography of Books for Children Published, Written, Edited and Sold by Mr. Tabart, 1801–1820*. (Winchester: St Paul's Bibliographies) 1990.

## Notes

1. [*Tabart's Collection of Popular Stories for the Nursery*](http://www.cts.dmu.ac.uk/AnaServer?hockliffe+6645+hoccview.anv) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20071005145757/http://www.cts.dmu.ac.uk/AnaServer?hockliffe+6645+hoccview.anv) 5 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine (1804, 1812).

1. [Anon., *The History of Jack and the Bean-Stalk*](http://www.cts.dmu.ac.uk/AnaServer?hockliffe+2290+hoccview.anv) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20090426032334/http://www.cts.dmu.ac.uk/AnaServer?hockliffe+2290+hoccview.anv) 26 April 2009 at the Wayback Machine

---
Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Benjamin Tabart](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Tabart) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Tabart?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.