I thought I’d look and see if Edward Lear’s 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 £100-300+. 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?
Will the copy I’ve ordered have these, or not? I’m assuming it won’t. Certainly the copy I just ordered doesn’t mention the separate prints, and was ‘only’ £60. I’ll have to do an extra delivery shift or two to fund this extravagance. But it’s worth it, methinks.
Oh… I just cancelled that Amazon order. Found it on Waterstones for £30. I hope that doesn’t turn out to be a ‘false positive’? They said it’s in stock. But also mention a three week ‘order it from the publisher’ wait. Hmmm!? We shall see…