Shelfmark
Icc3.5.44
Author
Title
A book of nonsense / by Edward Lear. Fifth edition, with many new pictures and verses.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, [1862]
Physical description
[2], 111, [1] leaves : ill. ; 14 cm.
Note
Printed on one side of each leaf only.
Note
Date of publication from the Oxford University libraries catalogue.
Provenance
Two armorial bookplates of Villiers Hatton.
Binding
19th century red leather quarter-binding with red cloth boards gilt lettering and tooling on spine, and gilt on green leather lettering piece on spine ; original printed brown paper boards bound with text.
Copy-specific note
Ms. letter to a Miss Campbell signed from Edward Lear, with a caricature of the author by himself, pasted inside front board.
Genre/Form
Nonsense verse.
Added entry--name
Hatton, Villiers, 1852 - 1914 former owner.
Added entry--name
Routledge, Warne, & Routledge publisher.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B28111