Author photo. Engraved by Andrew from a photograph taken in San Remo, by Roncarolo.

Engraved by Andrew from a photograph taken in San Remo, by Roncarolo.

Edward Lear (1812–1888)

Author of The Complete Verse and Other Nonsense

Includes the names: Edward Lear, Edward Lear
Also includes: Lear (1), Edward (3)

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TitleCopiesReviewsRatingsAverageMedianStd. dev.
The Complete Verse and Other Nonsense6979914.074.000.89
The Owl and the Pussycat59621664.084.000.91
A Book of Nonsense3229583.624.001.05
The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Frost4903544.194.000.92
The Owl and the Pussycat3333214.214.000.82
A Was Once an Apple Pie4237213.954.000.90
The Jumblies81 174.094.501.11
The Quangle Wangle's Hat894143.933.750.86
A Book of Bosh: Lyrics and Prose (Puffin Books)45 94.064.000.83
The Dong with a Luminous Nose36 84.134.000.54
Edward Lear's Nonsense Omnibus67173.864.001.25
The Pelican Chorus: and Other Nonsense47163.253.251.15
Edward Lear's Nonsense Books49 63.834.000.69
Nonsense Verse of Edward Lear19 43.753.500.83
The Book of Nonsense and Nonsense Songs (Penguin Popular Classics)40 43.383.250.41
Nonsense!17 43.633.250.82
The Duck and the Kangaroo14142.752.001.30
The Scroobious Pip40135.005.00 
Nonsense Songs and Stories24 34.334.000.47
Hilary Knight's The Owl and the Pussy-Cat reissue17135.005.00 
Companion Library: A Wonder Book / Nonsense Books21123.503.500.50
Edward Lear's Nonsense Verse5224.004.001.00
How Pleasant to Know Mr. Lear: Nonsense Poems20 23.003.001.00
Owls and Pussy-cats11 24.504.500.50
The Pobble Who Has No Toes (A Studio book)20 23.503.500.50
Selected Poems of Edward Lear (Bloomsbury Poetry Classics)2 23.253.250.25
Incidents in the Life of My Uncle Arly and Other Nonsense5 25.005.00 
The story of the four little children who went round the world9 23.003.002.00
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat and Calico Pie26 24.004.001.00
Nonsense drolleries. The Owl & the Pussy-Cat-The Duck & the Kangaroo5 23.003.00 
Babbels en krabbels van Edward Lear6 21.501.500.50
Nonsense Poems (Dover Children's Thrift Classics)66 24.004.001.00
The Complete Nonsense Book. Containing All The Original Pictures And Verses, Together With New Material1 13.503.50 
Daffy Down Dillies: Silly Limericks7 14.004.00 
Edward Lear's Journals. A Selection1 15.005.00 
The tragical life and death of Caius Marius, Esqre., late Her Majesty's consul-general in the Roman states1 15.005.00 
BOOK OF LEARNED NONSENSE8115.005.00 
Teapots and Quails11 14.004.00 
Lear in Sicily: Twenty line drawings by Edward Lear illustrating a tour made in May--July 1847 in the company of Jo1115.005.00 
A Book Of Lear7 15.005.00 
Edward Lear's Nonsense Stories and Poems/Cassette1113.003.00 
LIMERICKS BY LEAR.6113.003.00 
Edward Lear's Indian journal : watercolours and extracts from the diary of Edward Lear (1873-1875) / edited by Ray Murphy4 14.004.00 
Die Geschichte von den vier kleinen Kindern, die rund um die Welt zogen6 15.005.00 
Journals of a Landscape Painter in Greece and Albania (The Century Travellers)11113.003.00 
Letters of Edward Lear,: Author of2 14.004.00 
The Family of Parrots10 14.004.00 
Later letters of Edward Lear, author of "The book of nonsense" to Chichester Fortescue (lord Carlingford), Lady Waldegrave and others4 14.004.00 
Edward Lears Book of Nonsense and More No5 13.003.00 
The Owl and the Pussycat7 13.003.00 
The owl and the pussy-cat and other nonsense rhymes18 14.004.00 
The Owl and the Pussycat (Usborne First Reading: Level 4)8 14.004.00 
The Cretan journal4114.004.00 
Selected Letters6 15.005.00 
Children's Classics Box Set: The Hare And The Tortoise And Other Fables/ There Was A Young Lady Whose Nose And Other Nonsense Rhymes3 13.003.00 
Gorey X36 14.004.00 
The New Vestments3 13.003.00 
The owl and the pussy-cat and other verses11 12.002.00 
Over the Land and Over the Sea: Selected Nonsense and Travel Writings3 12.502.50 
Poetry for Young People - Edward Lear2     
Edward Lear in Greece; a loan exhibition from the Gennadius Library, Athens. Circulated by the International Exhibitions Foundation, 1971-19721     
Edward Lear's Nonsense Songs & Laughable Lyrics1     
UFR LEVEL-4 THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT1     
More Nonsense3     
A Concordance to the Complete Nonsense of Edward Lear1     
A Book of Nonsense Alphabets (Little Blue Book No. 1173)1     
The Owl and the Pussycat (A Pop-Up Book)2     
Laughable Lyrics4     
More Nonsense Pictures, Rhymes, Botany and Alphabets1     
Bosh and Nonsense1     
Rhymes of nonsense : an alphabet1     
Edward Lear sketches of parrots relating to illustrations of the family of Psittacidae, or parrots1     
The Owl and the Pussycat1     
Edward Lear Parrots Postcards: 24 Ready-to-Mail Cards (Card Books)1     
Edward Lear - A New No Nonsense Alphabet1     
Edward Lear's Nonsense Books / A Wonder Book1     
Nonsense Botany and Nonsense Alphabets5     
Poèmes sans sens (bilingue)1     
Gromboolian Poems (Pichremac)2     
The nutcrackers and the sugar-tongs1     
Edward Lear's Scroobious Pip [Completed By Ogden Nash]1     
The two old bachelors1     
The Walrus and the Carpenter and Other Nonsense Verse (Mini Classics) (Mini Classics)1     
Presaggi mediterranei: Lettere, 1833-18581     
Edward Lear's journals : a selection / edited by Herbert van Thal2     
Owl and the pussy-cat. French & English^Le hibou et la poussiquette : Edward Lear's The owl and the pussy-cat / freely translated into French by Francis Steegmuller ; with illustrations by Monique-Alika Watteau2     
The Jumblies and Other Nonsense Verses [Annotated]1     
Drawing Book Alphabet4     
I limericks di Edward Lear1     
THE NONSENSE BOOKS: The Complete Collection of the Nonsense Books of Edward Lear (with over 400 original Illustrations)2     
Edward Lear in Southern Italy : journals of a landscape painter in Southern Calabria and the Kingdom of Naples1     
Learovy třesky plesky česky1     
He Owl and The Pussycat1     
The Owl and the Pussycat 2.51     
A Treasury of Nonsense (1 Cass Stock no.7030)1     
Die Ente und das Känguruh. Und andere Gedichte1     
Owl & the Pussycat2     
The owl and the pussycat1     
Sire Hibou et dame Chat1     
The Nonsense ABC's the Bye-Lo Series1     
El omnibus, sin sentido1     
Nonsense Stories And Alphabets1     
The Owl and the Pussycat and Other Nonsense Poems1     
The Owl and the Pussy Cat Went to Sea: And Other Nonsense Verse1     
Edward Lear's Tennyson3     
Nonsense rhymes and laughable lyrics1     
Pobble Who Has No Toes & Other Nonsense1     
Edward Lear's a Nonsense Alphabet1     
Edward Lear Limericks--Three Books in One: The Owl and the Pussy Cat, the Duck & the Kangaroo, and a Book of Nonsense1     
The Old Man and the Edible Suit (Picturemacs)1     
Calico pie1     
The nonsense alphabet of Edward Lear3     
There Was a Young Lady Whose Nose...: And Other Nonsense Rhymes (Children's Classics)71    
Phantastische Reise1     
So Much Nonsense5     
Dandelion Library: Best Loved Fables of Aesop / Nonsense Alphabets21     
For Lovers of Flowers and Gardens2     
Nonsense Songs And Laughable Lyrics: Verse.3     
Diario di un viaggio a piedi1     
The Owl and the Pussycat and Other Silly-Time Tales9     
Laughable lyrics : a fourth book of nonsense poems, songs, botany, music, &c.1     
The Nonesene Poems of Edward Lear1     
A Nonsense birthday book: compiled from "the book of nonsense" and "more nonsense"2     
Boldog bolondságok1     
Il libro dei nonsense. Testo inglese a fronte3     
The Owl and the Pussycat and the Duck and the Kangaroo1     
Kringle Krangles hat1     
Historien om fire børn, en missekat og en kvanki-vanki1     
Edward Lear's grumbuliske digte1     
Pelican Chorus (A Studio book)14     
Calico Pie and Other Nonsense4     
Nonsense Alphabets8     
Lear's Nonsense verses7     
The Jumblies and Other Nonsense Verse (Classic Verse Collection)5     
For Lovers of Cats6     
There Was an Old Man...: A Gallery of Nonsense Rhymes5     
Nonsense Songs451    
Of Pelicans and Pussycats8     
Lear in the Original : Drawings and Limericks by Edward Lear for his Book of Nonsense4     
Bisky Bats and Pussy Cats (Bloomsbury Children's Classics)8     
The birds of Edward Lear : a selection of 12 finest bird plates of the artist1     
Whizz!5     
Two Nonsense Stories.4     
LITTLE BOOK OF NONSENSE (Little Barefoot Books)16     
Collected Nonsense Songs2     
The Jumblies and the Dong with a Luminous Nose5     
Nonsense Stories and Poems CD1     
The history of the 7 families of the Lake Pipple-Popple, and The story of the 4 little children who went round the world3     
The courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo & the new vestments9     
The Owl and the Pussycat (A Poetry Pop-Up Book)3     
The Owl and the Pussycat: A Comedy in Three Acts2     
Edward Lear in the Levant : travels in Albania, Greece, and Turkey in Europe, 1848-18493     
Sämtliche Limericks.1     
Journals of a landscape painter in Albania, &c1     
Lear Omnibus, The1     
Lear Alphabet1     
The owl and the pussycat, and more nonsense (A Harlin Quist book)5     
Journal of a landscape painter in Corsica5     
ABC Lear Alphabet8     
Забытий день рождения : Сказки английских писателей1     
Two Laughable Lyrics: The Pobble Who Has No Toes; The Quangle Wangle's Hat3     
Nonsense songs, stories, botany, and alphabets4     
The Corfu years2     
Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae, or Parrots1     
Queery Leary nonsense1     

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