Search Results: the natural history of parrots the by prideaux j selby

Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

BiblioLife, 2010-04-06. Paperback. Good.

Hardback. New.

EDINBURGH: W H LIZARS, 1836 A good to very good copy of the first edition with 30 hand coloured plates engraved from drawings by Edward Lear. In the original publisher's cobbled brown (originally purple) cloth binding with gilt titles to spine. The binding has a faded spine and fading towards the edges of the boards. There is a paler faded area around the middle of the front board. The corners have wear with some fraying of the cloth. The spine ends are pulled and there is some scuffing down the front spine joint. The original green endpapers are present and are clean. Contents: volume listing; half title; black and white frontispiece portrait of Thomas Bewick and tissue guard; hand coloured vignette title page with 2 parrots; 2 further title pages; an advertisement extolling the virtues of Edward Lear's pictures; contents listing; Memoir of Thomas Bewick (by the Reverend Turner); text with 30 hand coloured plates; and publisher's catalogues bound at the rear. One of these is a prospectus for the… Read More

Edinburgh: W.H. Lizars, 1836. Hardcover. Good +. Most of the parrots are Australian and many plates are after Edward Lear including the Leadbeater cockatoo. 12mo, 187pp, frontis, color illustrated engraved title & 30 fine hand colored steel engravings of parrots. Full leather binding, both boards detached., spine chipped , some light foxing through out o/w G+ condition.