Facsimile of a Nonsense Alphabet

Lear, Edward

A droll introduction to one of the author's worlds and a mission statement of sorts: illustration and six lines of verse for each letter; produced circa 1849, through two private collections on its way to the publisher; #869/1000 numbered copies.

Publisher: Frederick Warne. First English edition 1926
Edition: First Edition
Place Published: London
Illustrated grey cloth. Bookplate. Faint spotting to endpapers, spine darkened. Very good.


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