Edward Lear
This small book of the nonsense songs of Edward Lear (1812-1888) was first published in May 1988, after the History of the QTP in 1987. It is somewhat unusual in that it is dated.
(Last updated on 16/2/2021)
SBP-LEA1: First edition
Title: Edward Lear, 1812-88 Author, Artist
Publisher: J.L. Carr Publisher, 27 Mill Dale Road, Kettering
Year: May 1988
ISBN: None
Size: 128 x 94 mm
Pages: 16
Staples: two
Binding: white printed glossy card covers
Paper: white
Editor: (J.L. Carr)
Cover artist: Edward Lear (or Carr in the style of Lear)
Internal illustrations: seven by Edward Lear
Number in series: 85
Colophon: none
Telephone number: none given
Printing history:
Number of other titles listed: 84
Printed by: none stated
Content: Poems: By way of preface; Incidents in the life of my Uncle Arly; The owl and the pussy-cat; The dong with a luminous nose; The Jumblies. Rear cover: a short biography in Carr's hand, quotations from a letter by Lear, and from T.S. Eliot.
Rear and front covers (click to enlarge)
Inside rear cover (click to enlarge)
Notes: This is dated May 1988 and numbered 85, with late impressions of six other small books: Hopkins, Milton, Vaughan, Bunyan, The Devil's Dictionary and The Dictionary of Parsons