Hoffmann

A Book of Nonsense. By Edward Lear with Struwwelpeter by Heinrich Hoffmann and other absurdities by various authors. Collected by Ernest Rhys. LONDON : 1932. Dent Everyman's Library No. 806

1932 · réf. 052734 — London: J.M. Dent & Co 1932. Third Impression . Hardcover. Very Good. Small Octavo. Illustrated. LONDON : 1932. First published in 1927. Includes works by Edward Lear Lewis Carroll Heinrich Hoffmann and William Brighty Rands. Everyman's Young People's Library 806 Series. Hardback. Illustrated throughout. Original grey ribbed cloth Gilt lettered & decorated spine upper half. Blind 'Dent' motif on front cover decorative end-papers. Bright; internally crisp and clean. No owner name or internal markings. Minor wear only. VERY GOOD. xiv 240 pages. Complete with Half title. Printed at 'The Temple Press Letchworth England'. See Seymour no. 616.0. CONTENTS: The jolly beggar and other rhymes.--King Nut-cracker or The dream of poor Reinhold by J. R. Planche from the German of Heinrich Hoffmann.--Nonsense rhymes from "Alice in Wonderland" by " Lewis Carroll" Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--Stalky Jack and other rhymes from "Lilliput levee" by William Brighty Rands.--The English Struwwelpeter or Pretty stories and funny pictures from the German of Heinrich Hoffmann.--Nonsense tales.--Nonsense rhymes from "Mother Goose's melody" and other great works mostly from Halliwell's "Nursery tales and rhymes."--Nursery nonsense by D'Arcy W. Thompson; illustrated by C. H. Bennett.--Two oddments and an oddity. Will be well-packed for posting/shipping. Rosley Books for Antiquarian books Cumberland Literature Rarities Theology and History. . Sm.8vo. Dent Everyman's Library No. 806. J.M. Dent & Co, hardcover