First Page of ‘The Owl and the Pussy-cat’ by Edward Lear, c.1861

First page of the nonsense-song ‘The Owl and the Pussy-cat’ by Edward Lear. Lear was famous for creating nonsense poetry and also taught Queen Victoria to paint.

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