Nonsense Alphabets

edward lear

A NONSENSE ALPHABET by Edward Lear. First Published 1952, Ninth impression 1977. Trade paperback. Victoria & Albert Museum, Her Majesty's Stationary Office (1977). 4 3/4" x 7" softcover with text and charming illustrations by Edward Lear From "This book reproduces a comic alphabet and a selection from sisteen comic birds by Edward Lear, now in the Department of Prints and Drawings at the Victoria and Albert Museum. "

Genres humorchildrens

64 pages, Paperback

First published January 1,1973

This edition

Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Published: January 1, 2000 by Franklin Watts, Incorporated
ISBN: 9780531051290
ASIN: 0531051293
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.