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Price: US$31.85 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: Oblong 8vo. Bound in pictorial paper covered boards with cloth spine. [2pp], 112pp, all printed on one side only. Illustrated with wood engravings by Dalziel Brothers, Camden Press, London. Pictorial title and 112 wood-engraved illustration with limericks beneath. New spine, with the boards very worn and chipped. Inside the text is in a mess; page 43 is mis numbered, compared to my other edition ten, it is page 34; page 54 is between 15/16; pages; pages 33-63 and 78-92 are badly damaged with repaired tears and lots of creases. Although the cover looks very acceptable inside the text is quite damaged. Size 14 x22cm (5.5 x 6.5 inches) . Size 14 x22cm (5.5 x 6.5 inches)
Seller: Roe and Moore, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$44.59 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: [1863] Bound in an Edwardian cloth binding with a red cloth spine. . Title page and the dedication page dated 1863, 112pp, all printed on one side only. Illustrated with wood engravings by Dalziel Brothers, Camden Press, London. Pictorial title and 112 wood-engraved illustration with limericks beneath. The book has been sewn and rebound circa 1900 therefore can be used as a book but the spine on the cover is torn and frayed. It lacks pages 59and 61. The following pages, 24 altogether have juvenile colouring in, some in pencil, some in watercolour. They are pages; 2-12, 15,27,28,35,37,43,49,52,55,71 and 73. Inside some of the pages have old corner crease marks, there is some light spotting throughout the text. A well-loved book which has been well used. Size 14 x22cm (5.5 x 6.5 inches)
Seller: Roe and Moore, London, United Kingdom
Lear, Edward. A Book of Nonsense (10th Edition). Routledge, Warne and Routledge, 1863.
Price: US$44.59 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good+ Tenth edition, original boards re-backed, with new endpapers. The title and first and last pages has some chips to their extremities, which have been professionally repaired with archival Japanese webbing. The dedications page appears not to be present. There are, however, three pages that have been coloured in with water colours -- two neat and quite accomplished another unfinished (Please see photographs). The rest of the pages are clean. An opportunity to get an early edition in very good professionally restored condition at an affordable price -- an unusually sturdy and neat re-backed original binding,
Seller: Polyanthus Books, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$63.70 + shipping
Description: Oblong 8vo, title page, dedication leaf and 112 illustrations by Lear with verses underneath, original red cloth backed yellow pictorial boards after Lear's drawings, rubbed, abrasion to lower board, worn to corners, spine ends re-inforced, perhaps recased at an early period as several leaves at the front have been misbound, but complete with all pages, the dedication leaf [dated 1863] trimmed and laid down, still a reasonably neat copy, FOURTEENTH EDITION. A great many identical editions appeared in this year, 1863, the date of the preface, but although produced in large numbers, copies have not survived well; this fairly clean and complete example has the light pencil additions,including one of a limerick for the old man of Cheadle which is slightly impolite; it can be easily erased but we prefered to retain such period features where possible.
Seller: J & S WILBRAHAM, LONDON, United Kingdom
Price: US$82.81 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: Sm.oblong 4to. 10th edition. Lacks title page but supplied as a scan, dedication page dated 1862. 112pp. Illustrated throughout with black and white line drawings after Lear printed by the Dalziel Brothers. Bound in original pictorial paper covered boards with cloth spine. Disbound as glue has disintegrated. Lacks page 57 (Old Man from Cape Horn); page 9 , the sheet is fragile with pieces missing on the inner hinge side; page 35 is marked with fingering and tears in margins; page 78 has light grey colouring and sheet is soiled and frayed. A poor copy. Size 14 x22cm (5.5 x 6.5 inches)
Seller: Roe and Moore, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$108.29 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Sm.oblong 4to. 10th edition. Not dated but neat ink inscription dated January 1863 dedication page dated 1862. 112pp. Illustrated throughout with black and white line drawings after Lear printed by the Dalziel Brothers. Recased, with original covers mounted on boards, cloth spine. 3 pages loose and from another edition of a similar age, title and six pages with fine contemporary hand colouring, and 8 plates with juvenile pencil additions to pictures, some partially rubbed out.A little foxing, otherwise a very acceptable copy. Size 14 x22cm (5.5 x 6.5 inches)
Seller: Roe and Moore, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$114.66 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: Original yellow card covers wquite split at hinges with a red cloth spine. . Title page and the dedication page dated 1863, 112pp, all printed on one side only. The coloured wood engravings by Dalziel Brothers, Camden Press, London are generally in bright clean condition. Pictorial title and 112 wood-engraved illustration with limericks beneath. Pages have separated but all appear to be present. Size 14 x22cm (5.5 x 8.5 inches).
Seller: RIVERLEE BOOKS, Waltham Cross, HERTS, United Kingdom
Price: US$254.81 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: [1863] Bound in original pictorial boards with red cloth spine. Title page and the dedication page dated 1863, 112pp, all printed on one side only. Illustrated with wood engravings by Dalziel Brothers, Camden Press, London. Pictorial title and 112 wood-engraved illustration with limericks beneath. The book cover does have some wear as usual, it has been sewn and rebound with white endpapers rather than the yellow that usually comes with the book. Therefore can be used as a book. As it has been rebound, but complete, but as some pages have been misplaced; page 31 is between 46/47; and pages 101 and 102 have been swapped over. Pages 29 and 30 have some marks, page 29 has a small piece missing in lower margin and page 109 has a large tear which has been professionally repaired. The really nice thing about this copy is at the back there are two large drawings with limericks underneath drawn in ink. Probably made by the first owner of the book. A well-loved book which has been well used. Size 14 x22cm (5.5 x 6.5 inches)
Seller: Roe and Moore, London, United Kingdom
LEAR, Edward (1812-1888). A Book of Nonsense. London: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1863, 1863.
Price: US$254.81 + shipping
Description: [Children's Illustrated] FOURTEENTH EDITION. Oblong (15 x 23cm), pp.[4] 112. Printed on the recto of each leaf only. All the original illustrations and verses, plus some new ones. Rebound in the mid twentieth century in brown half cloth with the original yellow illustrated cover laid over the upper board. Leaves a little marked and thumbed. Heavy wear to original yellow cover. A well used copy restored to a robust, readable condition. Good.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom