Bill Peckmann &Books &Illustration 26 May 2010 08:43 am
Edward Lear Nonsense – 1
- I’ve been a fan of Edward Lear forever. When Bill Peckmann sent me this incredible book with these great illustrations by Keith Ward, I had to open it up to you. I hope you enjoy it. (By the way, I’ve tried to find out about Ward, but I keep coming up with a philospher in England who doesn’t fit the bill. If you know anything about him share. Bill Peckmann led me to this link.)
The book was published in 1922.
The book’s front cover.
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The book’s back cover.
By the way, the book is long, so it’ll come in a couple of parts.
on 26 May 2010 at 10:54 am 1.Gene Hole said …
I find it interesting that someone chose to re-illustrate what had already been done so charmingly by the author himself. These are also beautiful, but I still associate Lear’s poetry with the art he himself created to go with it…
http://www.bencourtney.com/ebooks/lear/index2.html#owlandpussy
on 26 May 2010 at 10:57 am 2.Gene Hole said …
another interesting illustrating of Lear’s more popular poems: http://ufdcweb1.uflib.ufl.edu/ufdc/?a=juv&m=hd1J&i=20423
on 26 May 2010 at 11:04 am 3.Michael said …
Lear did magnificent illustrations of his own work. But his poems are so delightful that they’ve been illustrated by literally hundreds of people since. I’ve animated several of his poems.
on 26 May 2010 at 11:25 am 4.David Gale said …
Gorgeous illo’s. I marvel at the artist’s ability to do such convincing cast shadows.
on 28 May 2010 at 10:35 am 5.Kellie Strøm said …
Beautiful – delicious blobbiness and colour – I particularly love the various street images.