LETTERS OF EDWARD LEAR

by Edward Lear, Lady Strachey, Jane Maria Strachey, Frances

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New York: Duffield & Company, 1907 . First trade edition of this assemblage of letters from the esteemed nonsense poet and bird artist to politician Chichester Fortescue and society woman Frances Countess Waldegrave. Very good plus. Item #20740 This edition also reproduces Lear's silly drawings that he included in some letters, as well as some of the paintings he completed during the course of the correspondence.

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