Thorpe Adrian Editor (4 results)

Folio,[14] pp.,twelve colour plates, limited to 1000 numbered copies, fine copy in dustwrapper and cardboard slipcase. Joseph Wolf (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. (1975). This is the deluxe, limited, slipcased edition. Folio publisher's brown pebbled morocco preserved in a cloth-covered, morocco-faced slipcase. Edited and introduced by Adrian Thorpe. With 12 magnificent, full-page color plates by Lear with explanatory text on facing pages. Lithographed, printed and bound by K.G. Lohse, Graphischer Grossbetreib, Frankfurt. Slipcase with some blotching to the spine, but sound; book as new. A beautiful copy of this rare edition. Edward Lear (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: good. Limited edition . This is no 410. Some fraying to d/w.

Folio,[36] pp.,twelve colour plates, fine copy in dustwrapper, scarce in this condition (trhe dustwrapper is prone to substantial tears because of the book's size). Edward Lear was eighteen when he commenced work on Parrots and wherever possible he sketched live birds at Regent's Park Zoological Gardens. He also controlled every aspect of production, including the lithography. Parrots set new standards and established a style and format that others, particularly Gould, would follow. "Lear worked in great detail, outlining every feather and filling in the details with fine lines. This scientific accuracy extended to every part of the bird, from the beak to the claws. He noted on the plate the scale of the bird as shown in relation to its life-size, whenever he had reduced it. Only one bird was figured on each signed and dated plate, more often, only the bird itself was coloured, but occasionally parts of a branch adjacent to the bird figure were also painted. The colouring was done with opaque water-colours with touches of egg-white for parts of the feathers requiring sheen and for the eye to add that 'life-touch'. The foregrounds were sketches of branches, leaves and twigs only, and no background details were added" (Jackson, Bird Illustrators p.35).…