Edward Lear Short-toed Ptarmigan Hand-Colored Plate Text: publisher’s original three-quarter dark

Text: publisher’s original three-quarter dark brown morocco leather

This work was originally published in 7 fascicles from November 1829 to 1831

Publisher Butterworths and Co

Only a few hundred copies were published

the entire text and all fine color plates are very bright and clean

Edward Lear Short-toed Ptarmigan Hand-Colored Plate Text: publisher’s original three-quarter darkHand colored lithographic plate, approximately 14. 5 inches wide by 21 inches long. From: Gould, J., The Birds of Europe, 1832 1837, plate number 256. Image is of a Short toed Ptarmigan, Lagopus brachydactylus (Temm.). Gould's The Birds of Europe documented native Europe birds to the same artistic standards that had been previously applied to foreign birds. This volume was the first time he worked with Edward Lear who was a master of painting live