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London.
Jarrolds.
1953.
Colour and black and white plates, 240pp, a prior owner's signature on front paste down, dustjacket fragmented but now protected. The name of Edward Lear is familiar as that of author and illustrator of the famous Nonsense Verses, but as a travel-writer and landscape-painter he is now little known. This is due in part to the fact that he died before carrying out his intention to publish his illustrated journal describing his last journey, his trip to India during the 1870s. Between November 1873, and January 1875, he produced the extra-ordinary number of 20,000 or more water-colours while travelling from one end of the country to the other. At the same time, he kept an almost minute-by-minute account of his experiences, extracts from which published here. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 119640)
Related Subject Areas:
Art
British India
India
South Asia
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