EDWARD LEAR'S BOOK OF NONSENSE. [USBORNE ILLUSTRATED ORIGINALS.]

UK.8vo HB,1st edn.FINE-.No owner inscrptn and no price removal from cover.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,matt, white background paper-covered boards with colour pictorial artwork by Christine Pym illustrated boards and spine,with red+black glossy lettering to covers,white lettering and oval colour pictorial vignette to mauve spine/backstrip; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.A tint dent to head of spine/ backstrip - this the only fault preventing it being listed as MINT.
Immaculate colour illustrated front endpapers,plain pale green rear pastedown,a gold+red striped headband and a sewn-in blue silk bookmark ribbon.Top+fore-edges bright and clean without blemish; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - unread,apart from my own collation.UK.8vo HB,1st edn,8-239pp [paginated] includes limericks,nonsense songs (9),2 separate alphabets,nonsense botany (7 nonsense trees),a 3pp potted biography of Edward Lear,profuse part,single and double page colour illustrations by Christine Pym throughout the book and Usborne quicklinks to Edward Lear-related websites.Plus [unpaginated] colour illustrated half-title page,colour illustrated double-page title page,colour illustrated contents list/table,and sections' individual,colour illustrated separator page and to the reverse of last page,colour illustrated acknowledgements page.
A beautiful gift edition of Edward Lear's timeless,classic collection of limericks,jokes and rhymes,songs,alphabets and nonsense botany,all enchantingly illustrated.The much-loved The Owl and The Pussycat,the comical world of the Jumblies, the Quangle Wangle - as well as lots of other less well known but equally funny characters and their charming rhymes - are bound to delight young children.
The illustrations by Christine Pym are superb - they are full of fun and humour and a key part of this lovely book as they are integrated perfectly with the text.Complete with clear print and colour illustrations,these should appeal to those parents and grandparents keen to encourage children to encounter past great reads in their entirety.
An heirloom of the future, this beautiful book is richly produced to a standard this timeless classic deserves, with hardback cover binding,a sewn-in blue silk ribbon book- mark and traditional binding.
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