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Edward Lear. First American edition Book of Nonsense.

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Edward Lear. First American edition Book of Nonsense.

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Title: Edward Lear. First American edition Book of Nonsense.

Author: Edward Lear. A Book of Nonsense.

Publishing: Philadelphia: Willis P. Hazard, 1863.

Edition: First American edition.

Oblong 8vo; 112pp; original cloth backed pictorial boards; illustrated with 112 illustrations by the author. Edward Lear was a famous and important painter of landscapes and ornithology. He was also famous for his limericks and this work, A Book of Nonsense was his most famous and his only children's book. Complete copies in the original binding are rare.

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