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Rare Books

Rare Book Division
Firestone Library
One Washington Road
Princeton, NJ 08540
609-258-3184
Eric White
Curator of Rare Books
ericwhite@princeton.edu
609-258-9942

During 1996, Dr. Richard Buenger '44 donated his collection of 170 books of and relating to limericks, including early editions of Edward Lear's A Book of Nonsense. The collection was featured in an exhibition on limericks, Art and Nonsense: The Work and Play of Edward Lear (1812-1888), in the Milberg Gallery in 1997. The collection is catalogued.