Their influence has certainly been widespread, with echoes of Lear to be seen in the work of Thurber, Steinberg, Phil May, Bateman, and other artists and illustrators.It has been a hundred years since Edward Lear, the advocate of illogic, first became known to a wide public. Many Lear enthusiasts maintain that in these drawings the Laureate of Nonsense gave rise to an entire new style. With masterful simplicity and apparent naivete they tell of the dreamlike never-never land of childhood. In addition, you'll find three different sets of Nonsense Botany, five Nonsense Alphabets, and dozens of other selections in both prose and verse.All 546 of Lear's original illustrations are in this volume. No other low-price edition offers this complete collection.You will meet such old favourites as 'The Dong With a Luminous Nose,' 'The Jumblies,' 'The Owl and the Pussycat,' 'The Nutcrackers and the Sugar Tongs,' and 'The History of the Seven Young Owls.' Two hundred and fourteen limericks are in here as well, each illustrated with the drawing Lear composed specially for it. In a single volume you get 'A Book of Nonsense,' 'Nonsense Songs,' 'More Nonsense Songs,' 'Laughable Lyrics,' and 'Nonsense Songs and Stories. 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title.Here is every line of every nonsense book written by Edward Lear. It comes complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this book now in an affordable, modern, high quality edition. Many antiquarian texts such as this, are increasingly hard to come by and expensive. Blue Dickey-Bird”, “Drawings for Mother Goose”, “Illustrations for The Owl and the Pussy Cat”, “Foss”, “Ger-woman and Ger-man”, “At Dingle Bank”, “Spots of Greece”, “Epitaph”, “The Youthful Cove”, “The Book of Nonsense”, “There was an Old Man with a Nose”, etcetera. Contents include: “Queery Leary Nonsense”, “Mrs. This fantastic little volume of verse and story makes for perfect bedtime reading, and is not to be missed by fans and collectors of Lear’s wonderful work.

The greatest classical author of nonsense, Lear produced a wealth of silly and humorous works that have amused children and adults alike for more than a century.

This vintage book contains Edward Lear’s 1912 children’s book “The Complete Nonsense Book”.

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