Tabuan Parakeet from Illustrations of the Family of Psitta, or Parrots

by Edward Lear

$3,750 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian · No longer available

London: Published for the Author, 1830-1832. Lithograph with original hand color, 360 x 530 mm, framed size 650 x 820 mm. A few trivial spots of foxing, a magnificent plate well-framed. § Lear was renowned as one of Britain's finest ornithological artists before his nonsense verse was ever known. The vividly-colored and quite gorgeous “Tabuan Parakeet” is from his groundbreaking work on parrots, begun when he was only 18. It was the first monograph

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