A Book Of Nonsense
London & New York: Frederick Warne And Company & Scribner, Welford And Co, ca 1875. Lear, Edward. Hardcover. 60 leaves. 26 x 23 cm. 50 full color illustrations with blank page separating the color prints to prevent offsetting. The first quarto edition and the first printed in color. Lear's A Book of Nonsense, first published in 1846, has never gone out of print. It went through 19 printings in his lifetime under several publishers. Artwork after the Dalziel brothers, who are among the most admired and top engravers during the second half of nineteenth century. Bookplate inside front cover and owner inscription on flyleaf dated 19 April 1877. GROLIER: One Hundred Books Famous in Children's Literature. LOKER, p. 150. Some margins repaired. Orig. dark salmon cloth, backstrip and front cover illustrated in color and gilt. Very good. Item #24737
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