Edward lear's Nonsense Omnibus: With All the Original Pictures, Verses, and Stories of His Book of Nonsense...

edward lear e. strachey

1943. First Edition Thus. 480 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Black and white illustrations throughout. Book is in better condition than most examples of this age. Neat, clean, well bound pages with very minimal foxing, tanning and thumbing. Small inscriptions and neat labels may be present. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

Genres poetryfictionchildrens

480 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1,1943

This edition

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Published: January 1, 1943 by Warne
ISBN: 9780723205852
ASIN: 072320585X
Language: English

About the author

edward lear

Edward Lear was an English artist, illustrator, musician, author and poet, who is known mostly for his literary nonsense in poetry and prose and especially his limericks, a form he popularised.
His principal areas of work as an artist were threefold: as a draughtsman employed to make illustrations of birds and animals; making coloured drawings during his journeys, which he reworked later, sometimes as plates for his travel books; and as a (minor) illustrator of Alfred Tennyson's poems.
As an author, he is known principally for his popular nonsense collections of poems, songs, short stories, botanical drawings, recipes and alphabets. He also composed and published twelve musical settings of Tennyson's poetry.