Birds of America from Original Drawings

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Birds of America from Original Drawings

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Description

Author: John James Audubon
Format: Cloth or linen bound
Imprint: ARIEL PRESS
ISBN: 9780393088656

John James Audubon is arguably America’s most widely recognized and collected artist. His Birds of America has been reproduced often, beginning with the double elephant folio printed by Havill in England, followed by a much smaller ‘Octavo’ edition printed in Philadelphia and sold by subscription. After Audubon’s death, his family arranged with the New York printer Julius Bien to produce another elephant folio edition, this time by the new chromolithographic process. It too would be sold by subscription, but the venture, begun in 1858, was brought to an abrupt end by the Civil War. Only 150 plates were produced, and the number remaining today is slight; they are among the rarest and most sought after Audubon prints.

The edition is limited to 250 copies for the Commonwealth and France.It is master printed in Germany and includes 22 very large selected plates from the Birds of America. They would stunning as framed images.
Printed in nine-colour collotype to closely match the quality of the original. The paper is offset cartridge of 300 g/qm weight and there are 24 sheets of text with historical introduction and descriptions of the original plates. The binding is half linen,with rigid boards reinforced in metal.

Unfortunately the book has had some water staining to the exterior bottom edges of the book.
This has soaked through to catch the bottom edge of the pages and whilst it does not affect the main images it is a substantial blemish. The discounted price reflects this.

Photo is not the actual version we have so please contact us at sales@hedleysbooks.co.nz for actual photograph of the book.

As it is a very large format book shipping costs will need to be quoted on request.


Additional information

Weight 1600 g
Dimensions 980 × 680 × 30 mm

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