NMLP P-035361 · Book-club / reprint tell · minted 2026-07-09

A Book of Nonsense

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

The book most readers actually encounter is the enlarged 1861 edition published by Routledge, Warne & Routledge — typeset (letterpress) rather than lithographed, with wood-engraved rather than lithographed illustrations, expanded with additional limericks, and issued under Lear's own name rather than the 'Derry down Derry' pseudonym. It is a different, later book and should not be mistaken for the true 1846 first edition.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Book-club / reprint tell NMLP P-035361 for "A Book of Nonsense" by Edward Lear (as 'Derry down Derry') (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-035361, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).