Edward Lear Short-toed Ptarmigan Hand-Colored Plate Panjab University Publisher Place Chandigarh

Panjab University Publisher Place Chandigarh Date Published 1969 Date Published Estimated No Edition First edition Number of Volumes 1 Reprint No Condition Very good Condition Description Top rear outer corner is bumped extending into the volume for 45 pages

Only a few hundred copies were published

over olive green cloth boards

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

Edward Lear Short-toed Ptarmigan Hand-Colored Plate Panjab University Publisher Place ChandigarhHand 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