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Nonsense songs, stories, botany, and alphabets / by Edward Lear.

Accession number
PML 132866
Creator
Lear, Edward, 1812-1888.
Published
London : Robert John Bush, 1871.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
59 wood-engraved vignettes after Lear, 50 lithographic plates (some with lithographic text) by Lear.
"Printed by Watson & Hazell, London and Aylesbury"--T.p. verso.
"This miscellany includes two of Lear's best poems, 'The owl and the pussy-cat' and 'The Jumblies.' There is a record of Lear singing his nonsense songs to children as early as 1860"--Ray, p. 61.
"Dalton and Lucy, Booksellers and stationers, 28, Cockspur St, Charing Cross"--Bookseller's label on p. [2] of cover.
Publisher's advertisement p. [4] of cover.
Description
[8, 182] p., [50] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm
Provenance
Bookplate of Michael Ernest Sadler, University College, Oxford; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Original printed boards.
Classification
Department