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Lear (Edward) The Owl and the Pussy-Cat and other Nonsense Songs,pictorial title-page and 11 plates, all mounted albumen prints reproducing printed text within pictorial borders by Lord Ralph Kerr, name in lower margin of title erased, a few small stains, original pictorial cloth gilt, g.e., neatly rebacked, [McLean p.91], oblong folio, Cundall and Co., 1872.

***The book is thought to have been published in a small edition at the artist's expense. The other nonsense songs are "The Duck and the Kangaroo" and "How the Beasts got into the Ark". This seems to be their second appearance in print after appearing in Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets the previous year..

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Lear (Edward) The Owl and the Pussy-Cat and other

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