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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
A Book of Nonsense (1855)
This second edition was published in one volume. The illustrations were redrawn on the lithographic stones, and the limericks are now lettered in the now-familiar five-line style.
Author(s):
Derry Down Derry
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
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1866)
Author(s):
Lewis Carroll
Illustrator(s):
John Tenniel
A Book of Nonsense (1866)
This enlarged one-volume seventeenth 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. This edition was hand colored.
Author(s):
Edward Lear
Illustrator(s):
Edward Lear
A Gaping-Wide-Mouth Waddling Frog (1866)
This is the reissue of this nonsense poem.
Author(s):
Anonymous
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
A Gaping-Wide-Mouth Waddling Frog (1866)
Author(s):
Anonymous
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
Phantasmagoria (1869)
Author(s):
Lewis Carroll
Illustrator(s):
Anonymous
A Book of Nonsense (1870)
Author(s):
Edward Lear
Illustrator(s):
Edward Lear
King Luckieboy’s Picture Book (1871)
Author(s):
Anonymous
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
Harrison Weir
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
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
The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in Eight Fits (1876)
Author(s):
Lewis Carroll
Illustrator(s):
Henry Holiday
The Song of Sixpence Toy Book (1876)
Author(s):
Anonymous
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
Laughable Lyrics (1877)
Author(s):
Edward Lear
Illustrator(s):
Edward Lear
How the Froggies Go to Sleep (1879)
A collection of sixteen short stories and poems - better than average for its era. Read online at Baldwin Library.
Author(s):
Palmer Cox
Kirk Munroe
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Palmer Cox
Louisa Parsons Stone Hopkins
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