![]() ![]() In the second edition the captions are altered and for the first time set out uniformly in the now familiar five-line form, emphasizing the AABBA rhyme scheme (they are mostly set in three lines in the first edition). "Lear made new lithographic stones for this second edition, which may be rarer than the first" (Ray). The work which swept the limerick to popularity, Lear's famous Book of Nonsense was first published in 1846, with 73 lithographic limericks by Lear. Amy Dillwyn was a radical novelist, feminist campaigner, and early female industrialist, whose novels are "noted as an outstanding example of Victorian lesbian fiction" (Kirsti Bohata). The book was presented to the novelist Amy Dillwyn (1845 1935) by her brother-in-law John Cole Nicholl in 1860, the year in which he married her sister, the mountaineer and lepidopterist, Mary De la Beche Nicholl. This copy with an interesting provenance. ![]() The second edition contains three illustrations not present in the trade edition, and which have never appeared since. Second edition, rare - "virtually unfindable" according to Ray - and here preserving the original boards, judiciously restored. ![]()
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