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THE BIRDS OF EDWARD LEAR: A SELECTION OF THE 12 FINEST BIRD PLATES OF THE ARTIST by Adrian Thorpe
London: The Ariel Press, 1975
Fol, unpaginated. Original beige hardcover binding, with gilt lettering to spine and front board on small leather cut-outs. With dust jacket. 12 beautiful full-colour plates, collated and complete, and with an introduction by Adrian Thorpe.
Copy no. 277, no limitation indicated.
Edward Lear (1812-1888) 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, Lord Tennyson's poems. One of the greatest ornithological artists of his era, he taught Elizabeth Gould whilst also contributing to John Gould's works and was compared by some to the naturalist John James Audubon. (wikipedia.com)
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