Accession number
PML 85480
Creator
Lear, Edward, 1812-1888.
Published
Boston : James R. Osgood and Company ..., 1871.
Credit line
Gift of Justin G. Schiller, 1981.
Notes
Illustrations by the author.
1st American ed., published the same year as the 1st London ed., which contained the 1st English appearance of 'The owl and the pussy-cat,' 'The duck and the kangaroo' and The Daddy long-legs and the fly.' These poems first appeared in America in Our young folks, Feb.-April, 1870. See Noakes, p. 210.
Verso of t.p.: Boston : Stereotyped and printed by Rand, Avery, & Frye.
Last 3 p. blank.
Advertisement for other books by Lear on back cover.
1st American ed., published the same year as the 1st London ed., which contained the 1st English appearance of 'The owl and the pussy-cat,' 'The duck and the kangaroo' and The Daddy long-legs and the fly.' These poems first appeared in America in Our young folks, Feb.-April, 1870. See Noakes, p. 210.
Verso of t.p.: Boston : Stereotyped and printed by Rand, Avery, & Frye.
Last 3 p. blank.
Advertisement for other books by Lear on back cover.
Description
[144] p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Provenance
Justin G. Schiller.
Binding
Quarter brown publisher's cloth, color lithographed boards.
Classification
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