1884 GREENE PARROTS IN CAPTIVITY FESTIVE AMAZON

1884 GREENE PARROTS IN CAPTIVITY FESTIVE AMAZON (image 1/1)
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Antique Parrot Prints W.T. Greenes Parrots in Captivity 1884-1887 Festive Amazon ParrotThis delightful work of 81 colored wood-engraved plates was printed by Benjamin Fawcett after drawings by A.F. Lydon. The prints are hand finished, particularly the eyes and the beak & on some t is a beautiful silvery wash applied to the feathers. This auction is for one print.Benjamin Fawcett was one of the greatest color printers of the 19th century. He pioneered a system of wood block engraving from multiple wood blocks that resulted in vivid finely colored works such as this marvelous book. Other examples of this original printing technique are Couchs History of the Fishes of the British Islands and Houghtons British Fresh Water Fishes . Fawcett had an association of some 50 years with Francis Orpen Morris to produce many beautiful works on birds, including the highly successful A History of British Birds . Greenes Parrots in Captivity is an authoritative and studious work of the time and is probably the original how to books on raising parrots in captivity. It is full of extensive notes on the feeding and successful rearing of each bird according to the philosophy of the day. The illustrations are very vivid, beautifully colored wood engravings and are among the finest of all the illustrations of parrots from this period. In the words of the read more
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