THAT SINGULAR PERSON CALLED LEAR:
A Biography of Edward Lear, Artist, Traveller, and Prince of Nonsense
By Susan Chitty
New York: Atheneum, 1989.
First American edition, first printing.
First printing number code sequence 1 through 10 to the copyright page.
Illustrated with fifteen photographs on glossy black-and-white plates.
Chitty offers an in-depth biographical look at a complex man who was unhappy, a troubled homosexual, a lonely traveler, and a gifted man who tried to make others happy with his art, humor, cartoons, satire, creature depictions, nonsense poems, and more.
Fine in dark-red linen over threaded white boards with gilt embossed titles to the spine, red-and-white headband and tail-band; in a fine dust jacket; original printed $18.95 price still intact to the front inner flap.
Octavo; 305 pages; notes and references; bibliography; index.
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