TRAVIES, Edouard (1809-1865) and Jean Louis TIRPENNE (b.1801). [ Les Oiseaux les plus remarkables par leurs formes et leurs couleurs. Scènes variées de leurs moeurs & de leurs habitudes . Paris: Ledot aîné or Berrieux and London: E. Gambart & Co. or Victor Delarue, c.1857]. 2° (604 x 420mm). 77 hand-coloured lithographic plates by Traviès only (of 79), and an inserted hand-coloured lithographic plate of butterflies from another series by Traviès, without plates 60 and 79 as usual. (Marginal repairs to first 3 plates, light marginal spotting, minor spots to image of pl. 22.) Contemporary brown half morocco, upper cover titled in gilt, gilt edges (upper joint restored, extremities rubbed). Provenance : Francis Beresford Wright, Wootton Court (1837-1911; armorial bookplate) -- H. Bradley Martin (1906-1988; bookplate, sold Sotheby's New York, June 7, 1989, lot 222). THE BRADLEY MARTIN COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION of this beautiful work by 'one of the finest painters at work in the first half of the 19th century' (Jackson). Traviès was perhaps the first artist to capture the character of individual birds, portraying them in detailed backgrounds. The plates, described by Wood as 'simply wonderful... among the best portraits of birds ever painted', were originally issued in serial form, without title or text. Traditionally this work calls for 79 plates, but it has been thought that plates 60 and 79 were never published. This copy contains a replacement plate 60, as do most copies, of butterflies, probably from Traviès' Oiseaux et Papillons (Paris, n.d.). Francis Beresford Wright was Master of the Arts at Cambridge and Justice of the Peace for Derby and Warwick, son of Francis Wright of Osmaston Manor, Derbyshire. Sitwell Fine Bird Books , p. 147; Nissen IVB 946; Wood 601.
TRAVIES, Edouard (1809-1865) and Jean Louis TIRPENNE (b.1801). [ Les Oiseaux les plus remarkables par leurs formes et leurs couleurs. Scènes variées de leurs moeurs & de leurs habitudes . Paris: Ledot aîné or Berrieux and London: E. Gambart & Co. or Victor Delarue, c.1857]. 2° (604 x 420mm). 77 hand-coloured lithographic plates by Traviès only (of 79), and an inserted hand-coloured lithographic plate of butterflies from another series by Traviès, without plates 60 and 79 as usual. (Marginal repairs to first 3 plates, light marginal spotting, minor spots to image of pl. 22.) Contemporary brown half morocco, upper cover titled in gilt, gilt edges (upper joint restored, extremities rubbed). Provenance : Francis Beresford Wright, Wootton Court (1837-1911; armorial bookplate) -- H. Bradley Martin (1906-1988; bookplate, sold Sotheby's New York, June 7, 1989, lot 222). THE BRADLEY MARTIN COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION of this beautiful work by 'one of the finest painters at work in the first half of the 19th century' (Jackson). Traviès was perhaps the first artist to capture the character of individual birds, portraying them in detailed backgrounds. The plates, described by Wood as 'simply wonderful... among the best portraits of birds ever painted', were originally issued in serial form, without title or text. Traditionally this work calls for 79 plates, but it has been thought that plates 60 and 79 were never published. This copy contains a replacement plate 60, as do most copies, of butterflies, probably from Traviès' Oiseaux et Papillons (Paris, n.d.). Francis Beresford Wright was Master of the Arts at Cambridge and Justice of the Peace for Derby and Warwick, son of Francis Wright of Osmaston Manor, Derbyshire. Sitwell Fine Bird Books , p. 147; Nissen IVB 946; Wood 601.
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