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The Complete Nonsense of Edward Lear

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Author(s):Edward Lear
Illustrator(s):Barnett Freedman
Edward Lear
Editor(s):Holbrook Jackson
Publisher(s): Faber & Faber
Year Published: 1947
Type: Hardcover
Genre: ABCs/Numbers/Colors/Words
Humorous
Nonsense
Picture Book
Poetry – Ballads
Poetry – Humorous
Age Range: Ages 0-5: Picture Books
Pages: 288
This is an All-Time Great Children's Book (ATGCB)
This is an Anthology
ISBN-10: 0486201678
0329178210
0329598619
0844607223
ISBN-13: 9780844607221
9780329178215
9780329598617
9780486201672
OCLC: 752986679

Description

An omnibus including five books: A Book of Nonsense, Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets, More Nonsense Pictures, Rhymes, Botany, etc., Laughable Lyrics and Nonsense Songs and Stories.

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Other Editions

A Book of Nonsense (1846)

This first edition was published in two volumes. Each includes thirty-six limericks printed on the rectos only. Save for the volume indication, the covers are the same.

Publisher: Thomas McLean
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A Book of Nonsense (1855)

This second edition was published in one volume. The illustrations were redrawn on the lithographic stones, and the limericks are now lettered in the now-familiar five-line style.

Publisher: Thomas McLean
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A Book of Nonsense (1861)

Enlarged one-volume third edition contains forty-three new limericks, but three have been dropped from the earlier editions. The plates have been engraved on wood and the text is letterpress.

Publisher: Routledge, Warne & Routledge
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A Book of Nonsense (1870)

This is the first quarto edition, with colored illustrations printed by wood blocks. There is a typo on this cover as there are only 113 illustrations. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

Publisher: Frederick Warne
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Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets (1871)

The author’s second book of nonsense includes The Owl and the Pussy-cat. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

Publisher: James R. Osgood and Co.
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More Nonsense Pictures, Rhymes, Botany, etc. (1872)

This is the author’s third collection of nonsense, which includes one hundred new limericks. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

Publisher: Robert John Bush
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Laughable Lyrics (1877)

This fourth and final collection includes The Dong with a Luminous Nose among other delights. Read for free online at Project Gutenberg and at DigiNole.

Publisher: Robert John Bush
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Nonsense Songs and Stories (1894)

This is a collection of longer poems and stories from the four nonsense books with a few additions. It does not include the limericks.

Publisher: Royce Publications
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The Complete Nonsense of Edward Lear (1951)

An omnibus including five books: A Book of Nonsense, Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets, More Nonsense, Pictures, Rhymes, Botany, &c., and Laughable Lyrics and Nonsense Songs and Stories.

Publisher: Dover Publications, Inc.
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A Book of Nonsense (1980)

This is a facsimile of the first edition to be printed in color.

Publisher: The Viking Press
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A Book of Nonsense (1982)

A facsimile from the Osborne collection with colored plates.

Publisher: The Bodley Head
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Nonsense Songs and Stories (1984)

This is a facsimile of the 1895 edition. It is a collection of poems and stories from the four nonsense books with a few additions.

Publisher: Royce Publications
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