NMLP P-035358 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-09

A Book of Nonsense

Edward Lear (as 'Derry down Derry') · Thomas McLean (London) · 1846

The first edition is entirely lithographed — both text and pictures reproduced directly from Lear's own hand-lettering and drawing rather than typeset — and comprises seventy-two limericks printed on one side of the leaf only, bound in two separate oblong-octavo parts

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-035358 for "A Book of Nonsense" by Edward Lear (as 'Derry down Derry') (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-035358, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).