~1888 The book of Nonsense by Edward Lear with 116 illustrations w/limericks

The Book of Nonsense 
with all the Original Pictures and Verses
Twenty-Fifth Edition

London/New York: Frederick Warne and Co. (no date but c.1888)

A best seller from it's original release in 1862, featuring the whimsical drawings and limericks of Edward Lear. 

Edward Lear (12 or 13 May 1812 – 29 January 1888) was an English artist, illustrator, musician, author and poet, and is known principally for his popular nonsense collections of poems, songs, short stories, botanical drawings, recipes, and alphabets. He also composed and published twelve musical settings of Tennyson's poetry.

10" x 8.5", 116 pages, dark green beveled cloth boards with beautiful gilt-stamped illustrated titles.

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