GOULD, John (1804-1881). The Birds of Great Britain. London: Taylor and Francis for the Author, [1862]-1873. 5 volumes, large 2° (542 x 370mm). 5pp. subscribers' list. 367 FINE HAND-COLOURED LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES, most heightened with gum-arabic, by Gould, Henry Constantine Richter, Joseph Wolf and William Hart most lithographed by Richter and Hart, printed by Walter or Walter & Cohn, 2 wood-engraved illustrations. (Plate 19 in vol.I and plate 55 in vol.III with sections stained affecting the image, the stain also affecting the accompanying text, occasional light spotting to text, very occasionally just affecting a few plates, tear to inner margin of final text leaf in vol.II.) Contemporary red half morocco gilt, each upper cover with onlaid centrally-placed coroneted initial D, spines in six compartments with double raised bands, lettered in two, the others with decorative symmetrical design composed from various small tools, g.e., by Hatchards, (some slight discolouration of cloth on covers, inner hinge of vol.III split between title and plate list). FIRST EDITION. "The most popular of all his works is always likely to be Birds of Great Britain ..." ( Fine Bird Books p.29). The text is, of course, longer than in any of Gould's other books and the illustrations, many of them prepared from freshly killed specimens, include many more depictions of chicks, nests and eggs. Wolf, who drew 57 of the plates, had accompanied Gould on an ornithological tour of Scandinavia in 1856, and was responsible for persuading Gould and Richter to adopt a livelier treatment of the illustrations. Ayer/Zimmer p.261; Fine Bird Books p.78; McGill/Wood p.365; Nissen IVB 372; Sauer 23. (5)
GOULD, John (1804-1881). The Birds of Great Britain. London: Taylor and Francis for the Author, [1862]-1873. 5 volumes, large 2° (542 x 370mm). 5pp. subscribers' list. 367 FINE HAND-COLOURED LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES, most heightened with gum-arabic, by Gould, Henry Constantine Richter, Joseph Wolf and William Hart most lithographed by Richter and Hart, printed by Walter or Walter & Cohn, 2 wood-engraved illustrations. (Plate 19 in vol.I and plate 55 in vol.III with sections stained affecting the image, the stain also affecting the accompanying text, occasional light spotting to text, very occasionally just affecting a few plates, tear to inner margin of final text leaf in vol.II.) Contemporary red half morocco gilt, each upper cover with onlaid centrally-placed coroneted initial D, spines in six compartments with double raised bands, lettered in two, the others with decorative symmetrical design composed from various small tools, g.e., by Hatchards, (some slight discolouration of cloth on covers, inner hinge of vol.III split between title and plate list). FIRST EDITION. "The most popular of all his works is always likely to be Birds of Great Britain ..." ( Fine Bird Books p.29). The text is, of course, longer than in any of Gould's other books and the illustrations, many of them prepared from freshly killed specimens, include many more depictions of chicks, nests and eggs. Wolf, who drew 57 of the plates, had accompanied Gould on an ornithological tour of Scandinavia in 1856, and was responsible for persuading Gould and Richter to adopt a livelier treatment of the illustrations. Ayer/Zimmer p.261; Fine Bird Books p.78; McGill/Wood p.365; Nissen IVB 372; Sauer 23. (5)
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