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Nonsense Limericks is a charming, limericks-only edition of Edward Lear´s infamous and much-adored nonsense verse.

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There was an old man on the Border,
Who lived in the utmost disorder;
He danced with the cat, and made tea in his hat,
Which vexed all the folks on the Border.

Enjoy Edward Lear´s hilarious, bizarre and delightfully bonkers limericks - published on their own for the first time. As found in the collected works, The Complete Nonsense of Edward Lear , which has been in print since 1947 and has sold tens of thousands of copies. The nonsense works, of which the limericks were a part, were first published in the mid-1800s.

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Often imitated, never bettered - this corpus of fine five-liners is a classic, and is preserved for many a future generation in this pleasant, fully-illustrated copy. The Bookbag

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