"
Jack and the Beanstalk" is an English
fairy tale. It appeared as "The Story of Jack Spriggins and the Enchanted Bean" in 1734 and as
Benjamin Tabart's moralised "The History of Jack and the Bean-Stalk" in 1807.
"Felix Summerly" (Henry Cole) popularised the tale in
The Home Treasury (1842), and
Joseph Jacobs rewrote it in
English Fairy Tales (1890). Jacobs' version is most commonly reprinted today and it is believed to be closer to the oral versions than Tabart's because it lacks the moralising.