bartlett edward 1908 (1 Ergebnisse)

5 original parts, all published. 4to., (10 2/8 x 7 6/8 inches). 31 handcolored lithographed plates by and after F. W. Frowhawk, printed by Hanhart. Original buff printed paper wrappers (backstrip to part one perished, others chipped with minor loss, unevenly browned). Provenance: from the library of Jacques Levy, his sale, Sotheby's, 20th April 2012, lot 16 First edition, and very rare in original parts. The magnificent plates are after watercolours by Frohawk, and are amongst his earliest published work. He is perhaps better known for his works on butterflies: 'Natural History of British Butterflies' (1914), 'The Complete Book of British Butterflies' (1934) and 'Varieties of British Butterflies' (1938). However, he did also publish a number of books of his illustrations of birds; He also illustrated numerous bird books, including 'Aves Hawaiienses: The Birds of the Sandwich Islands'; and 'Birds of the British Isles and their Eggs' with A G Butler, published around 1898. His first commissions were for "The Field", a journal which he later edited. Many of Frohawk's original watercolours were bought by his patron Lord Rothschild before being donated to the Natural History Museum. At the time of publication Bartlett was curator of the Maidstone Museum, but earlier in his life he had travelled extensively to Palestine, the Amazon basin and Peru. For the latter part of his life he was curator of the Sarawak Museum. It had been his intention to extend his "Monograph of the Weaver-Birds" to about 90 parts, but these five are all that were published. Wood p. 224; Fine Bird Books p. 58; Zimmer p.41.