Lear Edward Lady Strachey Ed (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Later printing. Quarto (oversized) hardcover in green cloth lettered and decorated in gilt. xv+ 429 pp. Preface by Lord Cromer; Editor's Note. Illustrated throughout with humorous, whimsical drawings by Lear including four color-tinted plates. Good, spine lettering rubbed away and wear at the extremities. Interior clean and unmarked. Extensive collection of Edward Lear's whimsical short verse pieces, songs and stories and accompanying comic drawings, presenting in their entirety: "Lear's Introduction to Nonsense Songs and Stories", "The Bird Book", "Queery Leary Nonsense", "The Book of Nonsense", "Nonsense Songs and Stories", "The History of The Seven Families Of The lake Pipple-Popple" in all its 10 parts, "Nonsense Cookery", "Three Receipts For Domestic Cookery", "Nonsense Botany" (first and second series, "Nonsense Alphabets", "One Hundred Nonsense Pictures and Rhymes", "An Alphabet", "Nonsense Alphabets", "How Pleasant To know Mr. Lear", "From The Letters".…

first edition rebound in dark green cloth boards with light green cloth spine and dark brown label to spine with gilt lettering, new eps, xlviii + 328pp, illus VG+ (rebound, light tanning).

Hardback. Condition: V.g. 1st ediiton. 392pp. Col. frontis. plate. 83 illustrations. Original brown buckram, black lettering in a black border. Unfaded copy. End-papers browned as often. A nice copy. Signature of the East Anglian author Norman Scarfe to the end-paper.

328 pp. Illustrated. 8vo, publisher's cloth. First trade edition. There was a privately-printed limited edition in 1890. Front free endpaper slightly chipped at fore-edge; text quite foxed throughout; a little light soiling to binding; jsut a very good copy.