Edward Lear On My Shelves.

[Munich]: Privately Printed [for the Author by the Bremer Press], 1933. First Edition, Limited to 155 numbered and signed copies on Zanders hand-made paper, the phototypes printed by J.B.Obernetter, 5 landscapes hand-coloured by Annette von Eckardt, this being No. 57, inscribed by Field. The catalogue of Field’s collection comprises published works, Leariana, diaries, original drawings and watercolours, and lithographs, engravings and woodcuts, and is preceded by a biography of Lear. Edward Lear (1812-1888] was an English landscape artist and illustrator of birds and animals who is perhaps best known as a writer of nonsense prose and verse and as the popularizer of the limerick. Lear published three volumes of bird and animal drawings, seven illustrated travel books including Journal of a Landscape Painter in Greece and Albania (1851), and four books of nonsense - A Book of Nonsense (1846), Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets (1871) which included his song ‘The Owl and the Pussycat’, More Nonsense, Pictures, Rhymes, Botany, etc. (1872), and Laughable Lyrics (1877). A posthumous collection, Queery Leary Nonsense (1911), was edited by Constance Braham Strachey. folio. pp. 455, [1]. illustrated throughout incl. portrait of Lear and a number of double-page landscapes (5 hand-coloured). Uncut in original publisher’s quarter beige linen over pale blue bds., printed spine label (spine label scratched, spine slightly soiled, otherwise fine). elala5898