Nonsense songs, stories, botany, and alphabets
By: by Edward Lear.
Contributors: Kell Bros.; Watson & Hazell,
Publisher: Robert John Bush, 32, Charing Cross, S.W.
Published: 1871
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 86
Subjects: English wit and humor -- 19th century; Children's books -- Specimens; Nonsense literature, English -- 19th century; Alphabet rhymes.
Genres: Specimens
Other titles: Lear's nonsense songs, alphabets. & c.
Notes: Printer's device on t.p. verso reads: "He who reads rules".

The Osborne collection of early children's books, p. 70.

Ray, Gordon N. The illustrator and the book in England, p. 61.

MASS copy: Bound in quarter cloth with spine title blocked in gold, and printed paper covered boards. Front cover printed in black, red and yellow, and with imprint: "Kell Bro. Lith. London". Back cover printed in black with publisher's advertisements. Lacking plates [13-14].