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No-nonse-nse : limericks (invented in Ireland c. 1765), meta-fours (invented during the non-summer of 1985 in Lower Stodgedale) and Clerihews (invented in 1890 by Edmund Clerihew Bently)

Title
No-nonse-nse : limericks (invented in Ireland c. 1765), meta-fours (invented during the non-summer of 1985 in Lower Stodgedale) and Clerihews (invented in 1890 by Edmund Clerihew Bently) / by a perdurable "true descendent of Aristophanes and Catullus," Jonathan Williams ; with seventeen apropos illustrations by Henrik Drescher.
Author
Williams, Jonathan, 1929-2008.
Publication
Mt. Horeb, Wis. : Perishable Press, 1993.

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TextRestricted use *KP (Perishable) 98-279Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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Additional Authors
  • Drescher, Henrik.
  • Hamady, Walter Samuel Haatoum, 1940-2019.
  • Perishable Press Limited. prt
Description
[39] p. : ill.; 16 cm.
Alternative Title
No nonsense
Subject
  • Limericks
  • Clerihews
Genre/Form
  • Typefaces (Type evidence) – Spectrum.
  • Typefaces (Type evidence) – Diethelm.
Note
  • "The (one hundred nineteenth) title from this press"--Colophon.
  • The ill. are reproductions of drawings.
  • Several unopened leaves.
  • Stitched to gray paper endleaves, in illustrated book jacket. "Cover stock is Shadwell hand-made in the barn"--Colophon.
Call Number
*KP (Perishable) 98-279
LCCN
93223930
OCLC
NYPG98-B970
Author
Williams, Jonathan, 1929-2008.
Title
No-nonse-nse : limericks (invented in Ireland c. 1765), meta-fours (invented during the non-summer of 1985 in Lower Stodgedale) and Clerihews (invented in 1890 by Edmund Clerihew Bently) / by a perdurable "true descendent of Aristophanes and Catullus," Jonathan Williams ; with seventeen apropos illustrations by Henrik Drescher.
Imprint
Mt. Horeb, Wis. : Perishable Press, 1993.
Local Note
No. 22 of 150 copies printed from Spectrum and Diethelm types on Sekishu paper; signed in pencil by the printer/book designer, Walter Hamady, "13 V. 93."
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Added Author
Drescher, Henrik.
Hamady, Walter Samuel Haatoum, 1940-2019. Printer
Perishable Press Limited. Printer
Research Call Number
*KP (Perishable) 98-279
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