Books with author Edward Lear

This vintage book contains Edward Lear’s 1912 children’s book; “The Complete Nonsense Book”. The greatest classical author of nonsense, Lear produced a wealth of silly and humorous works that have amused children and adults alike for more than a century. This fantastic little volume of verse and story makes for perfect bedtime reading, and is not to be missed by fans and collectors of Lear’s wonderful work. Contents include: “Queery Leary Nonsense”, “Mrs. Blue Dickey-Bird”, “Drawings for Mother Goose”, “Illustrations for The Owl and the Pussy Cat”, “Foss”, “Ger-woman and Ger-man”, “At Dingle Bank”, “Spots of Greece”, “Epitaph”, “The Youthful Cove”, “The Book of Nonsense”, “There was an Old Man with a Nose”, etcetera. Many antiquarian texts such as this, are increasingly hard to come by and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this book now in an affordable, modern, high quality edition. It comes complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.

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Lang: - English, Pages 462. Reprinted in 2019 with the help of original edition published long back [1904]. This book is Printed in black & white, Hardcover, sewing binding for longer life with Matt laminated multi-Colour Dust Cover, Printed on high quality Paper, re-sized as per Current standards, professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books, we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. If it is multi volume set, then it is only single volume, if you wish to order a specific or all the volumes you may contact us. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. (Any type of Customisation is possible with extra charges). Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions.

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Edward Lear (1812 - 1888) was an English writer of nonsense, the most famous piece of which is The Owl and the Pussycat. He is also credited with popularizing the limerick, though there was some speculation as to whether his patron, the Earl of Derby, simply used Lear as a pseudonym for his own writings. Lear was also a successful illustrator and even spent some time tutoring Queen Victoria in drawing before his improper behaviour had him thrown out of court.