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Egyptian Vulture, the first plate of the set
The first plate of the set, Egyptian Vulture.

Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 1, complete set

By John Gould, 1862-1873

All 37 plates of Birds of Great Britain as facsimile giclées at the size of the original sheet, kept in a Solander box the way a library keeps the original.

  • 37 plates, each 15 × 22 in
  • A title page and a contents page with the titles of all plates
  • A Solander box in linen with gold lettering, in the colour and lettering you choose
  • A certificate of authenticity

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Birds of Great Britain

Contents

John Gould, 1862-1873

  1. 1Egyptian Vulture
  2. 2Golden Eagle
  3. 3Spotted Eagle
  4. 4Sea Eagle
  5. 5Osprey
  6. 6Common Buzzard
  7. 7Rough-legged Buzzard
  8. 8Honey Buzzard
  9. 9Goshawk
  10. 10Sparrow Hawk
  11. 11Iceland Falcon
  12. 12Iceland Falcon – young
  13. 13Greenland Falcon, light race, adult and young
  14. 14Greenland Falcon, dark race
  15. 15Greenland Falcon, dark race, young
  16. 16Norwegian or Gyrfalcon
  17. 17Peregrine Falcon
  18. 18Hobby
  19. 19Merlin
  20. 20Orange-legged Hobby
  21. 21Kestrel
  22. 22Kite or Glead
  23. 23Black Kite
  24. 24Marsh-Harrier
  25. 25Marsh-Harrier (young)
  26. 26Hen Harrier
  27. 27Ash-coloured Harrier
  28. 28Barn-Owl
  29. 29Tawny or Brown Owl
  30. 30Eagle Owl
  31. 31Long-eared Owl
  32. 32Short-eared Owl
  33. 33Scops Eared Owl
  34. 34Snowy Owl
  35. 35Hawk Owl
  36. 36Tengmalm’s Owl
  37. 37Little Owl

The contents page in the box lists every plate. Each title opens the single print.

About the original

John Gould (1804-1881) published The Birds of Great Britain himself between 1862 and 1873, in 25 parts and 750 copies: 367 hand-coloured lithographs, many showing nests and young. Joseph Wolf, Henry Constantine Richter and William Matthew Hart worked Gould’s sketches up into the finished plates.

Volume 1 of five holds the Raptores, Gould’s ‘large tyrants of the air’: eagles, vultures, falcons, harriers and owls. The stone of the Snowy Owl was dropped and broken early in the printing, and later impressions show the damage.

Title
Birds of Great Britain
Published
1862-1873
Format
Imperial folio, 15 × 22 in
Original in
Teylers Museum, Haarlem
Plates
37

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