Edward Lear Introduced Quentin Blake (3 results)

HardBack. Condition: Very Good. 'Illustrations by the Author Hand-coloured for This Edition'. 1st Editon1997. Royal 8vo. 286pp. Double frontispiece and profuse coloured illustrations from original drawings. Very good internally, appears unopened and unread, clean tight sound square, no bookplate inscriptions or marks of any lind, clean crisp corners and edges, well held in joints and hinges. Beautifully bound in pictorial yellow cloth, featuring red yellow and blue wraparound illustration, excellent shelf presence. Housed and protected in like original slipcase, A delight for reader, scholar and collector alike, a welcome addition to any library.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Nice colourful hardback book, bound in yellow cloth, covered in different coloured letters, comes with a similar design box, slip case. The book is used and in very good condition. Normal wear, marks and tear apply consistent with use and age. The spine of the book has a few marks as does the box, just around the edges. 286 pages all intact, all pages, text and illustrations are in excellent, clean, readable order. The book was published in 1996 by The Folio Society and this specific book is the third printing dated 1998. Set in Bulmer with Horndon Display at The Folio Society. Printed in Great Britain by Butler & Tanner Ltd, Frome, on Caxton Book Wove, and bound by them in full cloth printed with a design by Richard Beards who also designed the slipcase and title page, and coloured the illustrations. Another fine book from The Folio Society.

Hardcover (in Slip Case). Condition: Very Good. First Edition. This is a virtually mint copy of the Folio Society's beautiful edition, as issued, slipcased, without a dust jacket. The titles collected in this delightful volume were first published as: A BOOK OF NONSENSE (1846); BOTANY AND ALPHABETS (1871); MORE NONSENSE PICTURES, RHYMES, BOTANY, ETC. (1872); LAUGHABLE LYRICS: A Fourth Book of Nonsense, Poems, Songs, Botany, Music, etc. (1877); and NONSENSE SONGS AND STORIES (1985). 8vo (288 pages; with Lear?s own illustrations, hand-coloured by Richard Beards).