JOURNAL OF A LANDSCAPE PAINTER IN CORSICA.
Lear, Edward
From Bjarne Tokerud Bookseller, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since 16 March 1998
From Bjarne Tokerud Bookseller, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since 16 March 1998
About this Item
Small 4to. Half title possibly supplied from another copy (slightly trimmed at bottom). xvi + 272pp. Wood-engraved frontispiece of Ajaccio; map of Corsica, 40 plates; the majority of them engraved by Lear; text vignettes by various artists after Lear's drawings. Period half morocco, marbled boards, marbled endpapers. Elaborately tooled spine. Text and plates are very clean. Overall, a Fine copy. Edited from the PREFACE: "In the years 1846, 1849, and 1852, I published illustrated journals of tours in Central and Southern Italy, and in Albania, three books which met with a successful reception from the Public, and were very kindly noticed by the Press.The present volume consists of journals written with the same intent and plan as those which preceded them. They describe, nearly word for word as they were written, my impressions of the nature of the landscape in those portions of Corsica through which I travelled. It is possible that the literary part of this book may not prove of equal interest with that of the publications above named. But the aim of all these journals should be looked on as the same, simply to be aids to the knowledge of scenery which I have visited and delineated. Those who go to Corsica hoping to study antiquities will be disappointed. On the other hand, 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, these are always around him, and he will find that every part of Corsica is full of scenes stamped with original beauty and uncommon interest. Equally will the tourist through the Corsica of our days' may walk from Capo Corso to the Straits of Bonifacio in the undisturbed monotony of security". END OF QUOTE. Seller Inventory # 009434
Bibliographic Details
Title: JOURNAL OF A LANDSCAPE PAINTER IN CORSICA.
Publisher: Science Progress
Publication Date: 1870
Binding: Hardcover
Illustrator: Lear and others.
Condition: Fine
Edition: 1st Edition
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