Humpty Dumpty. Tilt & Bogue, 1843, 87 x 240mm, continuous hand coloured strip view illustrating the nursery rhyme 'Humpty Dumpty', on 7 joined leaves, the first leaf mounted to inside rear cover, the front board with hand coloured title and 8 lines of text (vertical crease at centre), overleaf inside front board with the 4-line poem in Hebrew, Latin, Welsh, Greek, German and Italian; front board slightly cropped at head; contents loose and split at 2 folds, cloth backed [ref. Abbey Life 559]
Sold for £320
Auction: The Library Sale, 10th Apr, 2025
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