A BOOK OF on sale NONSENSE.Tenth edition. With many new pictures and verses

A BOOK OF NONSENSE.Tenth edition. With many new pictures and verses.

Published by Routledge, Warne, Routledge, London, 1862

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.

Condition:
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) on sale


All the text below relates to different editions of Lears A Book of Nonsense so just ignore unless of interest to you. I am sure there are errors.


First edition and second published by T. Mclean,in the same year, 1855. Title and 72 leaves, each printed by lithography on one side only.Third edition:

A BOOK OF NONSENSE with many new pictures and verses. Published in London by Routledge, Warne and Routledge, [1862], was an Enlarged edition with First appearance of Edward Lear's unique woodcut illustrations, most of which are based on his earlier lithographs. However 43 new nonsense poems are included with the remaining 70 others totalling 113 designs, the final page unnumbered. The paper is different as well, thinner.

All Editions: 4th- 14th edition, all published by Routledge, Warne and Routledge and printed in the 1860-1866 period.Routledge established a publishing business in 1843, and in 1851 Warne became a partner in the firm, which was then styled Routledge & Co. : They were brother-in-laws, a family run business. However the name was changed to Routledge, Warne & Routledge in 1858 when Routledge's son, Robert Warne Routledge, becoming a partner. Hence Routledge, Warne and Routledge.The Routledge, Warne and Routledge, company name was dissolved in 1865 and Frederick Warne formed his own publishing company Frederick Warne & Co. (Bedford Street, Covent Garden) but it appears that Warne controlled the copyright for Edward Lear book of Nonsense.

The 17th and 18th Editions are a bit murky, but are published by Frederick Warne and have a dedication page dated 1866 with Frederick Warne as publisher. Frederick Warne s edition have kept the same design on the front cover but printed in colour, with adverts on the verso advertising other publications by Frederick Warne. There are also two versions of this cover, another copy of the same date along the top edged of the front cover advertises that for 6d You can buy a copy which is coloured, it is in a fact hand coloured edition. Frederick Warne and Company published a much larger version of the book with two images per sheet, printed on one side only, and printed in colour in 1867.