LEAR, Edward. Journal of a Landscape Painter in Corsica . London: Robert John Bush, 1870. Large 8° (249 x 167mm). 40 wood-engraved plates, illustrations, after Lear. One map. (Light marginal soiling.) Contemporary brown half morocco, with marbled boards, endpapers and edges (lightly rubbed). FIRST EDITION. In his preface (p. ix), Lear stressed that Corsica, though offering no antiquities or modern beauties of architecture, should be valued for "the ever varying beauties of light and shade in mountain and valley, the contrast of snowy heights and dark forests, the thick covering of herb and flower, shrub and tree, from the cyclamen and cystus to the ilex, oak, beech, and pine ...." FORESTER, Thomas. Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia . London: Longman, Green [etc.], 1861. Large 8° (247 x 160mm). One map. 8 lithographed plates after M. A. Biddulp, coloured or tinted, one folding. Wood-engraved illustrations. Half-title. (Verso of frontispiece spotted, light spotting to plate margins.) Contemporray green calf, gilt-panelled spine, marbled endpapers and edges. Second edition. Pine-Coffin 858 2 .
LEAR, Edward. Journal of a Landscape Painter in Corsica . London: Robert John Bush, 1870. Large 8° (249 x 167mm). 40 wood-engraved plates, illustrations, after Lear. One map. (Light marginal soiling.) Contemporary brown half morocco, with marbled boards, endpapers and edges (lightly rubbed). FIRST EDITION. In his preface (p. ix), Lear stressed that Corsica, though offering no antiquities or modern beauties of architecture, should be valued for "the ever varying beauties of light and shade in mountain and valley, the contrast of snowy heights and dark forests, the thick covering of herb and flower, shrub and tree, from the cyclamen and cystus to the ilex, oak, beech, and pine ...." FORESTER, Thomas. Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia . London: Longman, Green [etc.], 1861. Large 8° (247 x 160mm). One map. 8 lithographed plates after M. A. Biddulp, coloured or tinted, one folding. Wood-engraved illustrations. Half-title. (Verso of frontispiece spotted, light spotting to plate margins.) Contemporray green calf, gilt-panelled spine, marbled endpapers and edges. Second edition. Pine-Coffin 858 2 .
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