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Lear, Edward.. Journals of a Landscape Painter in Albania,&c.. Richard Bentley., London., 1851.
Price: US$1024.69 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 428 pp + frontis map + 20 lithograph plates as called for. POS on first blank. Foxing to prelims. Slight foxing to margin of a few pages and 2 plates, no impact on images. Very good hardback in near contemporary, green, half morocco by Birdsall and Son. Raised bands with attractive gilt decoration to compartments. Marbled eps. Aeg.
Seller: Elaine Beardsell, HOLMFIRTH, United Kingdom
Price: US$1107.22 + shipping
Description: . 26 cm. 428 pág. Ilustr. con un mapa de Albania y 20 lám. litográficas dibujadas y grabadas por el autor, fuera del texto. Enc. en tela edit. azul, alguna mancha en plano anterior. Leve señal de óxido, abundante en ciertas láminas. Ex-libris de anterior poseedor. * Primera edición del diario dedicado a Albania de Edward Lear (1812-1888), artista, ilustrador, escritor y poeta inglés. Se trata de una descripción del desconocido territorio albanés a partir de los viajes emprendidos en 1848 a Albania y Macedonia. La expedición coincidió con un brote de cólera que provocó que se cerraran las rutas de Salónica, puerto al que llega al comienzo del diario, y que emprendiera esta aventura. Sus meticulosas descripciones, la dificultad que entrañaba el hecho de viajar por lugares jamás visitados por extranjeros y el profundo efecto que ejercieron sobre él el paisaje y sus gentes quedan perfectamente reflejados en el diario y ofrecen una visión única sobre los Balcanes en su época. Una visión reforzada, además, por las escenas que dibujaba y que reflejan una idiosincrasia particular y una admiración muy por encima del recelo a lo desconocido. Lear es un artista, y como tal nos transmite sus observaciones sobre el paisaje, la cultura y las personas que se cruzaban en su camino y que le cautivaron. Albania. Europa del este. Monografías. Descripciones.
Seller: Libreria Anticuaria Farré, Barcelona, BARCE, Spain
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: "His career as a 'topographical landscape painter' took him to Ireland, France, Italy, Albania, Greece, the Near East, and India. Lear's travel books, like his drawings, watercolors, lithographs, and paintings, are expertly executed, sharp observations of the minutest details from all the countries he visited, many of which were hardly accessible to the contemporary traveler. The adventurous and pioneering sense that drove Lear compulsively to such remote outposts is perhaps one reason for the thrilling, crisp intensity and freshness conveyed in his art" (John Lehmann, Edward Lear and His World). Large octavo. [4], 428 pp. Map and twenty tinted lithographic plates. Original dark blue blindstamped cloth with gilt spine. Lightly chipped at spine ends, corners rubbed, back joint cracking, but cords sound, one and a half inch tear along back joint near top edge. Early ink donorÕs inscription on title-page, small marginal dampstain on map. Still, a very good copy, with the plates fresh and clean. First edition. Abbey, Travel, 45.
Seller: Michael R. Thompson Books, A.B.A.A., Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$3522.38 + shipping
Description: 8vo. pp. (iv), 428. Frontispiece map and 20 tinted lithographic plates printed by Hullmandel and Walton. Original blind-stamped blue cloth, rebacked, with the original rubbed and faded backstrip laid down. Some minor foxing throughout, generally not affecting image. William Holman Hunt.'s copy of the first edition with a from Lear. The inscription is dated August 30th 1852 and was written at Clive Vale Farm in Hastings. Lear was in fact living with Hunt at Clive Vale during the second half of 1852, during which time he was to meet other members of the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood. The notes for this volume were collected during two journeys through Northern and Western Greece, Albania, and Macedonia in 1848 and 1849. Lear visited Corfu in 1848 then travelled to Constantinople with Sir Stafford and Lady Canning, and on his return overland from Salonica he visited Macedonia and Albania. The second journey saw Lear return to Albania, as well as taking in Epirus and Thessaly. The lithographs in this volume are tinted with three colours - a blue-grey, a grey and sepia. This may have been a technical experiment on Lear's part. The plates include views of Yenidje, Vodhena, Monastir, Akhrida, Avlona, Tyrana, Kroia, Skodra, Durazzo, Berat, Khimara, Tepelini, Parga, Meteora, and Tempe. [Abbey Travel 45].
Seller: Sims Reed Ltd ABA ILAB, London, United Kingdom