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The Tooth-Ache, Imagined by Horace Mayhew, and Realized by George Cruikshank. Art Council of Great Britain, not dated but ISBN 072870014X would put it to 1974. Rear panel priced “1/6 Plain, 3/-Colored” and this being the colored 24 panel, fan-page edition. Description: small, 24mo format, heavy tan paper boards. One of 5,000 Facsimile copies of Horace Mayhew’s uncommon 1849 1st edition, (43 panels). Condition: Near fine. Bright, tight and clean copy with no marks, tears or fading. Points are a little soft and there is a slight lean to the spine, else fine