Jumblies Edward Lear, Drawings by Edward Gorey First Ed,First Printing, Signed

Description: The Jumbles by Edward Learn and Drawings by Edward Gorey. This is a first printing, first edition signed Edward Gorey on the title page. Dust jacket and hardcover. 1968. From the dust jacket: Edward Lear, a respectable landscape painter by profession, who taught Queen Victoria the fine art of watercolor painting, was a genius in his spare time. His The Book of Nonsense, published 1847, made him far more famous than his paintings. His fantastic creatures and nonsense words have amused and delighted young and old for generations. Edward Gorey, one of this country's most distinguished illustrators, has done a brilliant series of pictures for the first poem in the Book of Nonsense because "The Jumbles" as he says, "was taught to me by my grandfather when I was four or five, and it has always been one of my favorites. Since Learn himself made only one small drawing for, it, it occurred to me that I might illustrate the whole poem." Mr. Gorey has dedicated his remarkable drawing to Foss, Mr. Learn's celebrated cat — a gesture worthy of the great poet himself.

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