AUDUBON'S BIRDS OF AMERICA

With an Introduction, this dazzling, heavyweight luxury large-format hardback presents John James Audubon's classic Birds of America in a brand-new collector's edition, boldly presented in full-colour with gold blocking and rarely-seen beautiful printed page edges. Naturalist and painter John James Audubon published his magnificent work on the birds of North America over 11 years between 1827 and 1838, in Edinburgh and London. Today, it is considered one of the best-known natural history books ever produced and a benchmark of drawing skills for natural painters. This beautiful new edition includes all 435 of Audubon's hand-coloured prints, created from engraved plates, arranged in their modern taxonomic order as agreed by the International Ornithological Congress (IOC). It begins with Ducks, geese and swans, gliding through nighthawks, cranes, terns, loons, vultures, owls, kingfishers, falcons, parrots, jays, larks, swallows, wrens, gnatcatchers, dippers, pipits, cardinals and icterids and more. The set of plates is accompanied by a full index of the birds, including the name given by Audubon, their modern name and scientific name. This deluxe gift of ornithology and natural history is beautifully presented, with illustrated endpapers, gold cover gilding, bird illustrations on the printed page edges and high-quality artworks throughout. Imitation cloth illustrated binding and endpapers 384 glossy pages with tiny silhouette images in top corners as well, 23.5 x 29cm. New, full price direct from the publisher.
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