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Nonsensus : cross-referencing Edward Lear's original 116 limericks with eight holograph manuscripts and comparing them to printed texts from the 1846, 1855 and 1861 versions : together with a census of known copies of the genuine first edition

Title
Nonsensus : cross-referencing Edward Lear's original 116 limericks with eight holograph manuscripts and comparing them to printed texts from the 1846, 1855 and 1861 versions : together with a census of known copies of the genuine first edition / compiled by Justin G. Schiller ; with introductory remarks by Vivien Noakes.
Author
Lear, Edward, 1812-1888.
Publication
Stroud, Gloucestershire : Catalpa Press ; New York, N.Y. :Distributed in the U.S.A. by Justin G. Schiller, 1988.

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Additional Authors
  • Schiller, Justin G.
  • Noakes, Vivien, 1937-
Description
xii, 119 p. : ill.; 18 x 24 cm.
Subject
  • Lear, Edward, 1812-1888
  • Lear, Edward, 1812-1888 > Criticism, Textual
  • Limericks
  • Nonsense verses, English
  • Smoking in art
Note
  • Includes facsim. reproduction of: A book of nonsense / by Edward Lear. 3rd ed. London : Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, [1861?].
  • Several ill. depict pipe-smoking men, e.g. "There was an old man of Corfu" (p. 17).
Bibliography (note)
  • "Census of the 1846 first edition" of A book of nonsense (p. 118-119) mentions copy in the Arents collection (uncataloged). For 2nd ed. (1856), cf. Arents 95-313.
Call Number
JFE 90-3854
ISBN
0904995135
LCCN
88160215
OCLC
  • 18405934
  • NYPG90-B45908
Author
Lear, Edward, 1812-1888.
Title
Nonsensus : cross-referencing Edward Lear's original 116 limericks with eight holograph manuscripts and comparing them to printed texts from the 1846, 1855 and 1861 versions : together with a census of known copies of the genuine first edition / compiled by Justin G. Schiller ; with introductory remarks by Vivien Noakes.
Imprint
Stroud, Gloucestershire : Catalpa Press ; New York, N.Y. :Distributed in the U.S.A. by Justin G. Schiller, 1988.
Edition
1st ed.
Bibliography
"Census of the 1846 first edition" of A book of nonsense (p. 118-119) mentions copy in the Arents collection (uncataloged). For 2nd ed. (1856), cf. Arents 95-313.
Local Note
Arents copy: Compiler's autograph on t.p.
Added Author
Schiller, Justin G.
Noakes, Vivien, 1937-
Lear, Edward, 1812-1888. Book of nonsense. 1988.
Research Call Number
JFE 90-3854
Arents 97-286
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