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Genre/Form: | lithographs Pictorial works Subscription lists (Publishing) Subscription publications |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Audubon, John James, 1785-1851. Birds of America. New York : J.J. Audubon ; Philadelphia : J.B. Chevalier, 1840-1844 (OCoLC)647580830 |
Material Type: | Artwork reproduction, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource, Visual material |
All Authors / Contributors: |
John James Audubon; J B Chevalier; E G Dorsey; Ralph Trembley; John T Bowen; William E Hitchcock; G. & W. Endicott (Firm),; Thordarson Collection. |
OCLC Number: | 17332716 |
Notes: | First Royal Octavo Edition with hand colored lithographs from the engravings of the Double Elephant Folio Edition. Also with revised text. Issued to subscribers in 100 parts, each with 5 lithographic plates. Consult Herrick. Plates lithographed by J.T. Bowen, except plates 136-150 which were lithographed by Endicott. Plates lithographed by Bowen have the drawer's initials "R.T.," for Ralph Trembly, or W.E.H. for William E. Hitchcock, who transferred the image to the lithograph stone "Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1839, by J.J. Audubon and J.B. Chevalier ..."--Title page verso of volumes I-VII, Vol. I: viii, [3], 12-256 pages, 70 leaves of plates; vol. II: vii, [4], 12-205, [1] pages, 71-140 leaves of plates; vol. III: viii, [1], 10-233, [3] pages, 141-210 leaves of plates; vol. IV: viii, [1], 10-321, [3] pages, 211-280 leaves of plates; vol. V: viii, [1], 10-346, [2] pages, 281-350 leaves of plates; vol. VI: viii, [1], 10-457, [3] pages, 351-420 leaves of plates; vol. VII: ix, [2], 10-371, [3] pages, 421-500 leaves of plates. List of subscribers: vol. I, pages [247]-256; vol. II, pages [201]-205; vol. III, page [2] at end; vol. IV, page [2] at end; vol V, page [1] at end; v. 6, page [2] at end; vol. VII, page [2] at end. |
Description: | 7 volumes : illustrations ; 28 cm (8vo) |
Responsibility: | by John James Audubon, F.R. SS. L. & E. |
Abstract:
This edition has 65 new images, making a total of 500. The original configurations were altered so that there is only one species per plate. The text is a revision of the Ornithological Biography, rearranged according to Audubon's Synopsis of the Birds of North America (1839).
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