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LEAR, Edward (1812-1888). Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae or Parrots: the greater part of them hitherto unfigured. London: E. Lear, [1830-]1832.
2° (530 x 350mm). Title, dedication, list of subscribers, list of plates and 42 HAND-COLOURED PLATES DRAWN AND LITHOGRAPHED BY LEAR, printed by C. Hullmandel. (Occasional dampstains on outer and lower margins, four or five plates slightly browned.) Contemporary dark brown calf gilt (rebacked, rubbed and repaired). Provenance: Thomas A. Nelson (bookplate).
Lear's first book, undertaken at the age of 18, and the first English illustrated monograph on a single species of bird. It is also the first English ornithological work published in folio format with lithographic plates. A rare work: only 125 names are listed as subscribers. Nissen IVB 536; Zimmer pp. 380-81; Fine Bird Books p. 87; Anker 283.
2° (530 x 350mm). Title, dedication, list of subscribers, list of plates and 42 HAND-COLOURED PLATES DRAWN AND LITHOGRAPHED BY LEAR, printed by C. Hullmandel. (Occasional dampstains on outer and lower margins, four or five plates slightly browned.) Contemporary dark brown calf gilt (rebacked, rubbed and repaired). Provenance: Thomas A. Nelson (bookplate).
Lear's first book, undertaken at the age of 18, and the first English illustrated monograph on a single species of bird. It is also the first English ornithological work published in folio format with lithographic plates. A rare work: only 125 names are listed as subscribers. Nissen IVB 536; Zimmer pp. 380-81; Fine Bird Books p. 87; Anker 283.