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Sale 437 - Fine Books and Manuscripts
May 5, 2016
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Lot Description
LEAR, EDWARD
Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets [with] More Nonsense, Pictures, Rhymes, Botany, etc. London: Robert John Bush, 1871-1872. 2 vols. in one. 4to, rebound in quarter red morocco over cloth, gilt-lettered spine, t.e.g. First edition. With numerous in-text illustrations. Fading to spine; some leaves lightly soiled and wrinkled; light foxing to endpapers. [Together with:] The Duck and the Kangaroo. Cambridge, MA: (Harvard Printing Office), 1956. Oblong 8vo, publisher's printed wraps. Facsimile of the original manuscript draft with pen drawings. Corners slightly folded; otherwise fine.
