A Book of Nonsense (Limericks) [1870s]
A Book of Nonsense is a comic verse collection of limericks by Edward Lear, published in England in 1870 for children and general readers. Its pictures are loose, hand-coloured caricatures of stout, flailing figures in fancy dress, with bold outlines, flat washes of red, green and yellow, and bare ground lines that a designer could borrow for playful cartoon energy.
![Picture 1 of 7 from A Book of Nonsense (Limericks) [1870s] (1870), leaf 6](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-1870sbookofnonsense-6-0.webp)
![Picture 2 of 7 from A Book of Nonsense (Limericks) [1870s] (1870), leaf 12](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-1870sbookofnonsense-12-0.webp)
![Picture 3 of 7 from A Book of Nonsense (Limericks) [1870s] (1870), leaf 14](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-1870sbookofnonsense-14-0.webp)
![Picture 4 of 7 from A Book of Nonsense (Limericks) [1870s] (1870), leaf 17](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-1870sbookofnonsense-17-0.webp)
![Picture 5 of 7 from A Book of Nonsense (Limericks) [1870s] (1870), leaf 41](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-1870sbookofnonsense-41-0.webp)
![Picture 6 of 7 from A Book of Nonsense (Limericks) [1870s] (1870), leaf 53](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-1870sbookofnonsense-53-0.webp)
![Picture 7 of 7 from A Book of Nonsense (Limericks) [1870s] (1870), leaf 54](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-1870sbookofnonsense-54-0.webp)