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Lear's A Book of Nonsense, first quarto edition
Lear's A Book of Nonsense, first quarto edition
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Author: Lear, Edward
Title: A Book of Nonsense
Place Published: London
Publisher:Frederick Warne and Co.
Date Published: c. 1870
Description:


Unpaginated.112 color illustrations on 50 plates printed alternately on verso and recto with interleaved guard sheets. (4to) 26.7x23 cm (10½x9"), original blue cloth lettered blind on spine with gilt background, pictorial cover stamped in black and gilt, endpapers replaced. 



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 London. Recently listed in the Grolier Club's One Hundred Books Famous in Children's Literature, Loker, p.150. NY imprint "Scribner, Welford and Co." would became "Scribners, Welford and Armstrong" in 1872. 

Condition
Rubbing at spine ends with gilt fading somewhat, some soiling, rubbing and wear to cloth with gilt fading a bit; some soiling and staining, a few creases; very good.
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