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This may well be the first time all the verses have been presented with their own illustration (I'm not aware that even Lear himself did a picture for each and every one), but Robins does very well with following in his footsteps. The woman who wore a particularly frilly frock and looked like a fish as a result certainly does on these pages, and how he never fails to come up with a new look considering how many old people he has to draw is a marvel. What doesn't feature in the pictures much is the mystical, mythical ''they'' of the limericks – it's amazing that reading these poems en masse for probably the first time in decades you pick up routine things like that, when all they really were designed for was a frivolous, momentary delight. Those moments have lasted centuries, and with books like this will only be sustained further. I'm very grateful I was given a review copy.

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