The New Vestments

by Edward Lear, DeLoss McGraw (Illustrator)

Wildly rollicking gouache illustrations capture the spirit of a famed nineteenth-century nonsense writer's rhyming tale about an old man's walk through town in clothing that looks and, as it turns out, is good enough to eat.

32 pages, Library Binding

First published January 1, 1970

About the author

Edward Lear was an English artist, illustrator, musician, author and poet, who is known mostly for his literary nonsense in poetry and prose and especially his limericks, a form he popularised.
His principal areas of work as an artist were threefold: as a draughtsman employed to make illustrations of birds and animals; making coloured drawings during his journeys, which he reworked later, sometimes as plates for his travel books; and as a (minor) illustrator of Alfred Tennyson's poems.
As an author, he is known principally for his popular nonsense collections of poems, songs, short stories, botanical drawings, recipes and alphabets. He also composed and published twelve musical settings of Tennyson's poetry.

Reviews

[Jill · Rating 5 out of 5]

It is too bad none of the illustrations are shown because they are a huge part of this books charm. If you can find it read it!

[Sarah · Rating 3 out of 5]

I love Edward Lear, but why are do all the storybook adaptations use such unappealing illustrations?