LEAR (EDWARD) JOURNAL OF A LANDSCAPE PAINTER IN SOUTHERN CALABRIA ETC; JOURNALS OF A LANDSCAPE PAIN

LEAR (EDWARD) JOURNAL OF A LANDSCAPE PAINTER IN SOUTHERN CALABRIA ETC; JOURNALS OF A LANDSCAPE PAINTER IN ALBANIA, ILLYRIA ETC first and second editions respectively, presentation copies both signed by Lear, two maps and twenty plates and a map and twenty plates respectively half title (lacking on second) signed on the title Edward Lear or Edward Lear Rome 1859 respectively and on the ffe of both To Aeneas MacBean from Edward Lear April 14 1860, embossed blue cloth gilt, worn, frayed in places, some leaves detached but completeLear recorded making the gift of these books in his Diary:Saturday, 14 April 1860Rose urlier. Very damp & gray - Packed. Model came: 9 to 11. Macbean's - pouring rain... At 5 I went to Macbean's and gave them 2 boox. At 6 to the K's, where were Isabella & Helen.Aeneas MacBean (1818-1864) was a British banker and art collector in Rome. He married in 1854 Eleanor Anne Gordon and is buried in Rome's protestant English cemetery, Campo Cestio.