Lear in the Original - 110 Drawings and Limericks by Edward Lear for His Book of Nonsense

Oxford Univerity Press, 1975. 234 pages.

Contents clean and tightly bound. Foxing along page egdges.
Jacket is discoloured and foxed in patches and has one large section missing on front and some small chipping on spine. Damage on spine continues to underlying cloth boards causeing a tear that makes the cardboard underneath visible. The cloth boards are also scuffed on the bottom and faded along extremities.

Contains facsimiles of 110 original drawings and limericks, some of them never previously printed. With extensive notes by Liebert. A full and not wholly serious index is included