Edward Lear - Bosh and Nonsense

In 1981, buried in the family papers at Naughton House, Fife, Scotland, were discovered two sketchbooks bound in watered silk and leather. They contained 79 numbered nonsense rhymes and drawings penned for 11-year-old Ada Duncan who had met Lear with her mother in 1864. Many of them are entirely new, brimming with Lear's comic invention, and reproduced here for the first time...