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Denslow's Humpty Dumpty

Denslow, W. W. (William Wallace), 1856-1915, Juvenile Collection (Library of Congress) · 1903 · New York : G.W. Dillingham Co., 1903. · 14 pictures

Denslow's Humpty Dumpty is an American children's picture book of 1903, illustrated and written by W. W. Denslow and published in New York by G.W. Dillingham for young readers. The pages pair short passages of text with bold, flat-colour illustrations of an egg character in a spotted suit, with a cook, a hen and a farmer's wife. Designers can take its simple shapes, strong red-and-cream palette and lively, caricatured figures.

Children's stories, American

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