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Nonsense Genre
Books in the Nonsense genre:
A Book of Nonsense (1846)
This first edition was published in two volumes. Each includes thirty-six limericks printed on the rectos only. Save for the volume indication, the covers are the same.
Author(s):
Derry Down Derry
Illustrator(s):
Edward Lear
Journals of a Landscape Painter in Albania, etc. (1851)
Author(s):
Edward Lear
Illustrator(s):
Edward Lear
Journals of a Landscape Painter in Southern Calabria (1852)
Author(s):
Edward Lear
Illustrator(s):
Edward Lear
A Book of Nonsense (1861)
Enlarged one-volume third edition contains forty-three new limericks, but three have been dropped from the earlier editions. The plates have been engraved on wood and the text is letterpress.
Author(s):
Edward Lear
Illustrator(s):
Edward Lear
A Gaping-Wide-Mouth Waddling Frog (1866)
Author(s):
Anonymous
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets (1871)
The author’s second book of nonsense includes The Owl and the Pussy-cat. Read for free online at Internet Archive.
Author(s):
Edward Lear
Illustrator(s):
Edward Lear
Routledge’s Coloured Picture Book: Containing Happy Days of Childhood, Sing a Song of Sixpence, The Gaping-Wide-Mouth Frog, Hop o’ My Thumb (1871)
An omnibus containing Sing a Song of Sixpence and A Gaping-Wide-Mouth Waddling Frog by Crane and Happy Days of Childhood and Hop o’ My Thumb
Author(s):
Anonymous
Illustrator(s):
T. Bolton
Walter Crane
More Nonsense Pictures, Rhymes, Botany, etc. (1872)
Author(s):
Edward Lear
Illustrator(s):
Edward Lear
Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There (1872)
Author(s):
Lewis Carroll
Illustrator(s):
John Tenniel
Old Mother Hubbard (1874)
The traditional rhyme about an old woman and her dog. Read for free online at the University of Florida.
Author(s):
Sarah Catherine Martin
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
Laughable Lyrics (1877)
Author(s):
Edward Lear
Illustrator(s):
Edward Lear
King Luckieboy’s Picture Book (1880)
Author(s):
Anonymous
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
The Great Panjandrum Himself (1885)
Author(s):
Samuel Foote
Illustrator(s):
Randolph Caldecott
The Complete Collection of Randolph Caldecott’s Pictures and Songs (1887)
All the picture books in one volume.
Author(s):
Randolph Caldecott
Illustrator(s):
Randolph Caldecott
The Turtle Dove’s Nest and Other Nursery Rhymes (1890)
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
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