More nonsense, pictures, rhymes, botany, etc.

Edward Lear

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MORE NONSENSE PICTURES, RHYMES, &c.BOTANY, .if t X MORE NONSENSE, im Printed Watson & London andby Hazell, Aylesbury. INTRODUCTION —tothis little Book-^-the third of its kind theIn Public,offering II to take the of theam recordingglad opportunity pleasure at the its have methave received with,appreciation predecessors and the kindas attested their wide circulation, by universallyby from Press. To have been the means ofnotices of them the be ainnocent mirth to thousands, may surely justadministering formotive for and an excusesatisfaction, grateful expression. a few words as toAt the same I am desirous oftime, adding and morethe of the two volumes,history previously published " of the first or Book ofNonsense," relatingparticularly original INTRODUCTION.vi have intoto which absurd suchcirculation,reports creptmany of the late Lordas that it was the thecomposition Brougham, that the andlate Earl of &c. are; rhymes picturesDerby, by whole have adifferent or that the; symbolical meaning,persons of&c. one the waswhereas,&c, ; every Rhymes composed by of the Illustrations handand one drawn ownbymymyself, every in no ofat the 'time the verses were made. Moreover, portion I ofthese Nonsense have ever allowed caricaturedrawings any more careor to andappear, throughout,private public persons thethan be has been to make subjectsmight supposed given " and abso-of : Nonsense," pureincapable misinterpretation been aimlute, having throughout.

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• Publié par: les_archives_du_savoir
• Nombre de lectures: 20
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 11 Mo

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MORE NONSENSE PICTURES, RHYMES,
&c.BOTANY,.if
t XMORE NONSENSE,im
Printed Watson & London andby Hazell, Aylesbury.