A Book of Nonsense. New [2nd] Edition. Bicycles circa 1872

circa 1872

CONTAINING TWENTY ORIGINAL FROM-LIFE PORTRAIT STUDIES OF PROMINENT EARLY TWENTIETH-CENTURY CELEBRITIES

: Livermore & Knight Co

REPRESENTING A CRITICAL ACQUISITION FOR INSTITUTIONAL SPECIAL COLLECTIONS OR EXTRAORDINARY PRIVATE COLLECTIONS DEVOTED TO THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE

Blue cloth backed color pictorial paper covered boards with wear to the corners

A Book of Nonsense. New [2nd] Edition. Bicycles circa 1872[Lear, Edward]. A Book of Nonsense by Derry Down Derry. London: Published by T. McLean, 26, Haymarket, 1855. SECOND EDITION. Oblong 8vo 5 7 16" x 8 1 8". [72] pp., printed on rectos only. Complete with 72 lithographed illustrations, each accompanied by a five line limerick caption. Original publisher's green cloth backed stiff gray paper wrappers, the upper wrapper lithographed with an introductory vignette, limerick text, and imprint data. Housed in