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Delightful cards for sending a loved one a fillip or dashing off a light-hearted note: showcasing illustrations from the anarchic art and imagination ...
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Delightful cards for sending a loved one a fillip or dashing off a light-hearted note: showcasing illustrations from the anarchic art and imagination ...
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Description
The British Library
Delightful cards for sending a loved one a fillip or dashing off a light-hearted note: showcasing illustrations from the anarchic art and imagination of much-loved English author and artist Edward Lear (1812-88). Reproducing original illustrations from his ‘A Book of Nonsense’, c.1885 and 'Nonsense Botany, and Nonsense Alphabets', 1889, which popularised the artform of very silly limericks and imaginary plant forms. Illustrations include ‘The Perpendicular Purple Polly’, the ‘Young Lady of Ryde’, ‘Manypeeplia Upsidownia’ and ‘Tigerlilia Terribilis’. The original books are now a treasured part of the collection of the British Library.
Delightful cards for sending a loved one a fillip or dashing off a light-hearted note: showcasing illustrations from the anarchic art and imagination of much-loved English author and artist Edward Lear (1812-88). Reproducing original illustrations from his ‘A Book of Nonsense’, c.1885 and 'Nonsense Botany, and Nonsense Alphabets', 1889, which popularised the artform of very silly limericks and imaginary plant forms. Illustrations include ‘The Perpendicular Purple Polly’, the ‘Young Lady of Ryde’, ‘Manypeeplia Upsidownia’ and ‘Tigerlilia Terribilis’. The original books are now a treasured part of the collection of the British Library.
Size & Additional Information
20 cards, five designs
15 x 10cm
Blank inside
Envelopes included
Printed in Britain
British FSC accredited card
Cards and envelopes can be recycled
Packed in a compostable bag. Requires industrial composting: please add to your food or garden waste bin (subject to your local refuse collection policies)
15 x 10cm
Blank inside
Envelopes included
Printed in Britain
British FSC accredited card
Cards and envelopes can be recycled
Packed in a compostable bag. Requires industrial composting: please add to your food or garden waste bin (subject to your local refuse collection policies)
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Reviews
Overall product rating 4.6/5
By Ms L Ferguson
28 July 2024
Newcastle upon Tyne
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The Lear nonsense cards are fun, good quality & a bargain. They would be fine as birthday or thank you cards probably for older people.
10 July 2024
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The Edward Lear cards take me back to my childhood, one of the books that was read to me before I could read for myself.
06 July 2024
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These cards are just that little bit different and bring a smile to my face. printed on good quality paper.
26 May 2024
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Probably too many of each design but I knew that when I ordered
13 May 2024
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These cards are fantastic.
07 May 2024
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I love these. They make me laugh and I'm sure they will entertain my friends.
By Mrs Barbara Chaplin
06 March 2024
Ashford,Kent
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Lots of fun, different to the usual
By Mrs Anne Wright
03 January 2024
London
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Delightful, and good selection.
By Mrs Elizabeth Foss-Smith
20 June 2022
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brilliantly funny cards for family use
By Ms Anne Child
05 May 2022
Bindoon, Western Australia
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Cards don’t capture Edward Lear for me