286 Full-Color Animal Illustrations

Best known as a writer of nonsense verse and limericks,

The youngest of twenty-one children, Lear was obliged to earn his own living at the age of fifteen.

Finally, it was lavishly illustrated by such distinguished contributors as Edward Lear, with hand-colored engravings which are avidly sought after by collectors and art and nature lovers alike to this day.

wrote the volumes dealing with monkeys, cats, pachyderms, ruminants, hummingbirds, sunbirds, gallinaceous birds, and the perch family

Naturalist’s Library, a popular scientific account of the vertebrate kingdom which started publication in 1833 and ultimately consisted of forty volumes. I

was Illustrations of Ornithology, which earned him great respect among zoologists.

During his university years, his studies focused on literature and medicine, as well as natural history and geology

Sir William Jardine (1800-1874), the eminent naturalist, was born in Edinburgh, Scotland.