{"id":24364,"date":"2024-10-25T06:27:20","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T05:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=24364"},"modified":"2024-10-26T07:43:06","modified_gmt":"2024-10-26T06:43:06","slug":"art-edward-lears-complete-parrots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=24364","title":{"rendered":"ART: Edward Lear\u2019s Complete Parrots"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"370\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/img_0435-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24365\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/img_0435-1.jpg 370w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/img_0435-1-222x300.jpg 222w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 370px) 100vw, 370px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I thought I\u2019d look and see if Edward Lear\u2019s Parrot book was available in print. Turns out it is. Well, it had to be Taschen, I suppose?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"750\" height=\"827\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/img_0433-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24363\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/img_0433-1.jpg 750w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/img_0433-1-272x300.jpg 272w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A typical listing on abebooks.com.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Most copies I found online were selling for \u00a3100-300+. Lots of them asking silly amounts. Maybe some of these on account of being the original XL edition, and also having separate colour plate prints? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Will the copy I\u2019ve ordered have these, or not? I\u2019m assuming it won\u2019t. Certainly the copy I just ordered <em>doesn\u2019t mention<\/em> the separate prints, and was \u2018only\u2019 \u00a360. I\u2019ll have to do an extra delivery shift or two to fund this extravagance. But it\u2019s worth it, methinks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh\u2026 I just cancelled that Amazon order. Found it on Waterstones for \u00a330. I hope that doesn\u2019t turn out to be a \u2018false positive\u2019? They said it\u2019s in stock. But also mention a three week \u2018order it from the publisher\u2019 wait. Hmmm!? We shall see\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I\u2019d look and see if Edward Lear\u2019s Parrot book was available in print. Turns out it is. Well, it had to be Taschen, I suppose? Most copies I found online were selling for \u00a3100-300+. Lots of them asking silly amounts. Maybe some of these on account of being the original XL edition, and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=24364\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;ART: Edward Lear\u2019s Complete Parrots&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-6kY","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24364"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24364"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24413,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24364\/revisions\/24413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}