Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets

by Edward Lear

$1,500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

First American edition. Illustrated. Stereotyped and Printed by Reed, Avery & Frye. 4to 210 x 163 mm . Original cloth-backed printed boards some rubbing at extremities, some pale staining . Provenance: Augustus Davies with his contemporary signature on title-page. Item #316922 The American edition is much scarcer than the first English of the same year.

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