EDWARD LEAR. Brian Reade. — Edward Lear's Parrots. With a foreword by E. L. Warre and twelve reproductions of coloured lithographs from Lear's 'Psittacidae'.
Duckworth & Co. Ltd., London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). Tall 8vo. 32pp. Cloth-backed paper-covered boards. Free endpapers lightly browned. A very good copy in lightly spotted, rubbed and creased price-clipped dust wrapper. Brian Reade's definitive essay on Lear's early efforts as a bird illustrator, accompanied by twelve coloured lithographs (selected from the original folio of forty-two lithographs, published at the artists' own expense in 1932)., Very Good, Very Good