Lear (Edward). Book of Nonsense, 2nd edition, [Thomas McLean, 1855], 73 lithographic plates, including title (fore-edge neatly reinforced), 10 early manuscript limericks written in brown ink to various blank versos (some show-through to rectos), last one dated 'Plymouth Apl. '87', some light toning and foxing, 1 leaf with closed tear in lower edge (with archival tape repair on verso), another with tip of lower outer corner missing, close-trimmed, clipping top edge of some illustrations, ownership names to front pastedown, late 19th century black half calf gilt, oblong 8vo (Quantity: 1) Printed in a very small edition of between 250 and 500 copies, this privately printed second edition preceded the first trade edition (i.e. third edition) by nearly a decade. The second edition has the same plates as the first edition of 1846, and only these first two editions were printed with lithographic plates. The second edition has the captions in five lines as opposed to three in the first edition. Both the first and the second editions contains three illustrations which were surpressed and did not appear again until recent times (‘Old Man of Kildare’, ‘There was an Old Man of New York’, and ‘There was an Old Sailor of Compton’).
Lear (Edward). Book of Nonsense, 2nd edition, [Thomas McLean, 1855], 73 lithographic plates, including title (fore-edge neatly reinforced), 10 early manuscript limericks written in brown ink to various blank versos (some show-through to rectos), last one dated 'Plymouth Apl. '87', some light toning and foxing, 1 leaf with closed tear in lower edge (with archival tape repair on verso), another with tip of lower outer corner missing, close-trimmed, clipping top edge of some illustrations, ownership names to front pastedown, late 19th century black half calf gilt, oblong 8vo (Quantity: 1) Printed in a very small edition of between 250 and 500 copies, this privately printed second edition preceded the first trade edition (i.e. third edition) by nearly a decade. The second edition has the same plates as the first edition of 1846, and only these first two editions were printed with lithographic plates. The second edition has the captions in five lines as opposed to three in the first edition. Both the first and the second editions contains three illustrations which were surpressed and did not appear again until recent times (‘Old Man of Kildare’, ‘There was an Old Man of New York’, and ‘There was an Old Sailor of Compton’).
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