Published by Faber & Faber, London England, 1947
Seller: The London Bookworm, East Sussex, United Kingdom
Decorative Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Faber & Faber Edition. Hardcover. The Complete Nonsense of Edward Lear. Two previous owner names to inside cover, one crossed out. Slight foxing to end inside covers. This collection of the Nonsense of Edward Lear forms a complete reproduction of the four volumes of nonsense published during the author's lifetime, together with a few hitherto unpublished pieces included in the selection called Nonsense Songs and Stories, edited by Sir Edward Strachey, in 1895. In this collectiin there appearwed for the first time the characteristic self-portrait in verse reproduced in the present volume. Illustrations throughout. 288 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.).