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The Dong With a Luminous Nose

Design Category
Book design, 1969
Designer/illustrator
Edward Gorey
Collection
(1970) Fifty Books of the Year
Description

This is a companion volume to ‘The Jumblies’ which Mr. Gorey illustrated for Young Scott Books, also from Edward Lear’s ‘The Book of Nonsense.’ Its only purpose is to keep alive for new generations Mr. Lear’s incomparable form of nonsense, with imaginative illustrations.

Credits
Author: Edward Lear
Size: 9 x 6 inches
Pages: 48
Quantity printed: edition of 10,000
Price: $2.95
Printer: General Offset Company, Inc.
Printing method: offset
Paper: Northwest Natural Bookbinder’s Text
Paper supplies: Olympic Paper Company
Binder: The Book Press
Binding materials: bound in Linson No. 2 supplied by Linson Products Division of Paul R. MacNaughton Company on .085 pasted board
Binding method: side-sewn, flat-backed
Publisher: William R. Scott, Inc. (New York, New York)