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A book of nonsense
- Title
- A book of nonsense / by Derry Down Derry.
- Author
- Lear, Edward, 1812-1888.
- Publication
- [London] : T. McLean, 1846.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Restricted use | Arents BIP (Lear, E. Book 1846) 04-215 | Schwarzman Building - Arents Collection Room 328 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Tabley House (Cheshire, England) fmo
- Description
- 2 v. ([74] leaves) : chiefly ill.; 15 x 22 cm.
- Subjects
- Note
- Cover title.
- "Published Feb. 10, 1846, by Thos. McLean, 26, Haymarket"--Covers and leaf [1].
- Consists of illustrated limericks; lithographed throughout. For list of prints, cf. Schiller, p. 117.
- Issued in illustrated brown paper covers with red cloth spine. Title printed in white; ill. (repeated from leaf [1]) printed in black and white on brown. Title in cover ill. and ill. on leaf [1]: Book of nonsense.
- Indexed In (note)
- Osborne Coll.
- Ray, G.N. Illustrator and the book in England
- Schiller, J.G. Census of the 1846 1st ed. (In his Nonsensus, p. 118-119)
- Call Number
- Arents BIP (Lear, E. Book 1846) 04-215
- OCLC
- 4922912
- NYPG04-B3957
- Author
- Lear, Edward, 1812-1888.
- Title
- A book of nonsense / by Derry Down Derry.
- Imprint
- [London] : T. McLean, 1846.
- Indexed In:
- Osborne Coll., p. 69Ray, G.N. Illustrator and the book in England, 92Schiller, J.G. Census of the 1846 1st ed. (In his Nonsensus, p. 118-119), 17
- Local Note
- Arents Coll. has v. 1 only; 2 copies, housed in dark red morocco and marbled paper case. Copy 1: Contains 37 prints, as issued (title print on leaf [1] and 36 prints as listed in Schiller, p. 117, but in different order). Copy 2: Incomplete. Contains 29 prints including title print; lacks Schiller's no. 1-2, 4-9, 11; has Schiller's v. 2, no. 36. Schiller states (p. 119) that Arents copy has 66 prints.Provenance: S. D. Secretan (inscription in copy 1).
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Secretan, S. D. Former ownerTabley House (Cheshire, England) Former owner
- Research Call Number
- Arents BIP (Lear, E. Book 1846) 04-215