English Literature, History, Science, Children’s Books and Illustrations
English Literature, History, Science, Children’s Books and Illustrations
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December 8, 04:53 PM GMT
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
LEAR, EDWARD
"There was an Old Person of Mold"
110 by 195mm., ink drawing with three-line limerick below, unsigned, mounted, framed and glazed, some browning
A version of the drawing was published in A Book of Nonsense, third edition, in 1861. Schiller records one other version: in a collection at the Houghton Library, University of Harvard (see Schiller, Nonsensus, 1988, p. 81). The Houghton copy has a number of textual variants. The present version follows the printed text.
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