Nonsense songs and stories.
Edward Lear (Holloway 1812 – San Remo 1888)
Category
Books
Date
1901
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wallington, Northumberland
NT 3018244
Summary
Bibliographic description
xviii, [2],13-144p . ill.., music . 4to. manuscript note 'Sep 15 1903' in 'The courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo' by the line 'Will you come and be my wife?' Refers to Charles Philips Trevelyan's proposal to Molly Bell.. Provenance: Twentieth-century pictorial armorial bookplate, a re-working of an earlier William Bell Scott pictorial Trevelyan bookplate (Franks 29799) of Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan (1797-1879), lettered: Charles & Mary Trevelyan [i.e. Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan (1870-1958), & Mary Katharine, (m.1904).] Arms: Trevelyan impaling Bell. Not in Franks.. Binding: Decorated cloth, as issued.
Makers and roles
Edward Lear (Holloway 1812 – San Remo 1888) Sir Edward Strachey, Bart. (1812-1901)