Accession number
PML 84567
Creator
Lear, Edward, 1812-1888.
Published
London : Robert John Bush ..., 1872.
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Frederick R. Koch, 1981.
Notes
Illustrations by the author.
1st ed.
Verso of t.p.: Printed by Watson & Hazell, London and Aylesbury.
Boards lithographed by Kell Bros.
Advertisement for other books by Lear on back cover.
Bound out of order. The limericks are not in the same order described by Field, and after the 74th come the letters F-Q of the nonsense alphabet. The other letters are after the proper half-title, but scrambled, with an extra copy of D.
1st ed.
Verso of t.p.: Printed by Watson & Hazell, London and Aylesbury.
Boards lithographed by Kell Bros.
Advertisement for other books by Lear on back cover.
Bound out of order. The limericks are not in the same order described by Field, and after the 74th come the letters F-Q of the nonsense alphabet. The other letters are after the proper half-title, but scrambled, with an extra copy of D.
Description
viii p., [143] leaves : ill. ; 22 cm.
Provenance
Inscribed by Lear on the t.p., Dec. 1871, "For Ethel" and again on p. [v], 1879.
Binding
Brown publisher's cloth spine, color lithographed boards; in case.
Classification
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Department