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[BLOW BOOK]. Humpty Dumpty. The Great Trick Book. New York: A.J. Fisher, 1869. Publisher?s colored wrappers with geometric design, backed with paper tape. Eight changes, including stencil-colored images of a devil, woman, harlequin, and soldier. 8vo. Wraps quite chipped, contents clean. SCARCE. See Toole Stott 1087. [With]: another copy, without wrappers.A variant edition of this popular trick book. Other editions are dedicated to George L. Fox (1825 ? 1877), the American comedian, pantomimist, and clown who performed as ?the original Humpty Dumpty.? In this edition, Fox appears as part of a larger scene, dressed in his trademark costume.