Nov 10, 2015 - Sale 2397

Sale 2397 - Lot 418

Unsold
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(CHILDREN'S LITERATURE.) NAST, THOMAS. The Wonderful Adventures of Humpty Dumpty. 12 chromolithographs and 2 black-and-white photolithographs. 4to, original stiff wrappers; off-printing and toning as common with McLoughlin publications. New York: McLoughlin Bros., [c. 1875]

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rare printing combining both humpty dumpty volumes. Originally issued in two pamphlets, this toy book was an accurate visual record of the famous 1868 George L. Fox pantomime of the same name right up to the transformation scene in the final color plate.