Cover, imprinted upper center: The Push Pin Monthly Graphic [in fraktur font over calligraphic meandor design]; imprinted lower center below: Selected Nonsense from the Work of Edward Lear.

Lear seems to have taken the epochal genius for emotional ambiguity to its furthest reach: a contemporary was struck that the poet could perform a setting of Tennyson’s ‘Tears, Idle Tears’ and sob ...