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GOULD, John (1804-1881). The Birds of Europe. London: Richard and John E.Taylor for the Author, [1832]-1837.
5 volumes, large 2° (530 x 360mm). 2pp. subscribers' list. 448 FINE HAND-COLOURED LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES, 68 BY EDWARD LEAR, the rest by Elizabeth Gould after her husband's sketches, printed by Charles Hullmandel. (Plate 35 shaved into image area, 51 slightly creased, text to plate 350 with margin repaired.) Contemporary red morocco gilt, covers with large onlaid marbled-paper panels, g.e. (joints and other extremities very lightly scuffed). Provenance: William Busfield Ferrand, M.P. (1809-1889, Harden Grange, Yorkshire, subscriber, armorial bookplate).
SUBSCRIBER'S COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION of Gould's first multi-volume ornithological work: the second of the folio series. Lear's influence is evident in many of the plates. His understanding of the possibilities that lithography offered and his mastery of the techniques involved contributed largely to the founding of the reputation which Gould was to build so successfully. Lear was the first, and arguably the greatest, of a series of fine artists that Gould employed over the ensuing half century. Zimmer pp.251-252; Anker 169; Fine Bird Books p.77; Wood p.364; Nissen IVB 371; Sauer 2. (5)
5 volumes, large 2° (530 x 360mm). 2pp. subscribers' list. 448 FINE HAND-COLOURED LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES, 68 BY EDWARD LEAR, the rest by Elizabeth Gould after her husband's sketches, printed by Charles Hullmandel. (Plate 35 shaved into image area, 51 slightly creased, text to plate 350 with margin repaired.) Contemporary red morocco gilt, covers with large onlaid marbled-paper panels, g.e. (joints and other extremities very lightly scuffed). Provenance: William Busfield Ferrand, M.P. (1809-1889, Harden Grange, Yorkshire, subscriber, armorial bookplate).
SUBSCRIBER'S COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION of Gould's first multi-volume ornithological work: the second of the folio series. Lear's influence is evident in many of the plates. His understanding of the possibilities that lithography offered and his mastery of the techniques involved contributed largely to the founding of the reputation which Gould was to build so successfully. Lear was the first, and arguably the greatest, of a series of fine artists that Gould employed over the ensuing half century. Zimmer pp.251-252; Anker 169; Fine Bird Books p.77; Wood p.364; Nissen IVB 371; Sauer 2. (5)