Lot 136
Lear, Edward. Laughable Lyrics... First Edition, Author's Own Copy, Signed Twice
Sale 2107 - Collections of an Only Child: Seventy Years a Bibliophile, the Library of Justin G. Schiller
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Lear, Edward. Laughable Lyrics. A Fourth Book of Nonsense Poems, Songs, Botany, Music, &c.
Lear's Own Copy, Twice Signed by Him
London: Robert John Bush, 1877. First edition, inscribed twice by Lear on title-page, "Edward Lear. Sanremo. 11. Novr. 1876. Nonsense Vol. 4 1877" and "Edw Lear. Villa Tennyson Sanremo March 2, 1886." 8vo. Unpaginated. Illustrated by Lear in black and white throughout. Publisher's blue pictorial cloth, stamped in gilt, black and in blind, joints lightly worn, "Vol 4 1877" in ink on front board, presumably by Lear; all edges trimmed; yellow endpapers; book-plate of Harriet Borland on front paste-down; Justin Schiller's Maurice Sendak-designed book-plate on same; light offsetting to endpapers; front gutter split at half-title.
Well-preserved copy of English author and illustrator Edward Lear's collection of nonsense poems and songs, twice inscribed by him.
London: Robert John Bush, 1877. First edition, inscribed twice by Lear on title-page, "Edward Lear. Sanremo. 11. Novr. 1876. Nonsense Vol. 4 1877" and "Edw Lear. Villa Tennyson Sanremo March 2, 1886." 8vo. Unpaginated. Illustrated by Lear in black and white throughout. Publisher's blue pictorial cloth, stamped in gilt, black and in blind, joints lightly worn, "Vol 4 1877" in ink on front board, presumably by Lear; all edges trimmed; yellow endpapers; book-plate of Harriet Borland on front paste-down; Justin Schiller's Maurice Sendak-designed book-plate on same; light offsetting to endpapers; front gutter split at half-title.
Well-preserved copy of English author and illustrator Edward Lear's collection of nonsense poems and songs, twice inscribed by him.
This lot is located in Philadelphia.
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From the collection of Justin G. Schiller
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