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The jumblies / Edward Lear.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Misc 1487
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lear, Edward, 1812-1888, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nonsense verses, English.
- Genre:
- rare books.
- Private press books (Printing)
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- [10] pages : illustrations ; 14 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Canton, New York : Caliban Press, 2007.
- Notes:
- Accordion fold binding; unfolds to 92 cm. Hand-colored volvelle.
- Issued in four-fold hand-made envelope.
- "Edward Lear's 'The Jumblies' first appeared in Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets published in London in 1871. 200 copies were printed at Caliban Press in Canton, New York (not too far from the Chankly Bore Hills) by Mark McMurray in 2007"--Back cover
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is number 93.
- OCLC:
- 191869274
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