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Grey Lag Goose, the first plate of the set
The first plate of the set, Grey Lag Goose.

Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 5, complete set

By John Gould, 1862-1873

All 78 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.

  • 78 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. 1Grey Lag Goose
  2. 2Bean-Goose
  3. 3Pink-footed Goose
  4. 4White-fronted Goose
  5. 5Bernicle Goose
  6. 6Red-breasted Goose
  7. 7Brent Goose
  8. 8Mute Swan
  9. 10Bewick’s Swan
  10. 11Sheldrake
  11. 12Ruddy Sheldrake
  12. 13Widgeon
  13. 14Shoveller Duck
  14. 16Teal
  15. 17Garganey
  16. 19Gadwall
  17. 20Pochard
  18. 22Red-crested Duck
  19. 23Tufted Duck
  20. 24Scaup Duck
  21. 25Steller’s Duck
  22. 26Eider Duck
  23. 27King Duck
  24. 28Scoter
  25. 29Velvet Scoter
  26. 30Surf Scoter
  27. 31Golden-eye
  28. 32Harlequin Duck
  29. 33Long-tailed Duck
  30. 34Goosander
  31. 35Merganser
  32. 36Hooded Merganser
  33. 38Great Crested Grebe
  34. 39Red-necked Grebe
  35. 40Horned Grebe
  36. 41Eared Grebe
  37. 43Great Northern Diver
  38. 44Black-throated Diver
  39. 45Red-throated Diver
  40. 46Great Auk
  41. 47Razorbill
  42. 48Common Guillemot
  43. 49Black Guillemot
  44. 50Little Auk
  45. 51Puffin
  46. 52Cormorant
  47. 55Great Black-backed Gull
  48. 56Lesser Black-backed Gull
  49. 57Glaucous Gull
  50. 58Iceland Gull
  51. 59Herring Gull
  52. 60Common Gull
  53. 61Kittiwake
  54. 62Ivory Gull
  55. 63Ross’s Gull
  56. 64Black-headed Gull
  57. 65Bonaparte’s Gull
  58. 66Little Gull
  59. 67Sabine’s Gull
  60. 68Caspian Tern
  61. 69Sandwich Tern
  62. 70Common Tern
  63. 71Roseate Tern
  64. 72Arctic Tern
  65. 73Little Tern
  66. 74Gull-billed Tern
  67. 75Black Tern
  68. 76White-winged Tern
  69. 77Whiskered Tern
  70. 78Great Skua
  71. 79Pomatorhine Skua
  72. 80Arctic Skua
  73. 81Long-tailed Skua
  74. 82Fulmar
  75. 83Great Shearwater
  76. 84Manx Shearwater
  77. 85Forked-tailed Storm-Petrel
  78. 86Storm-Petrel

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 5 of five holds the Natatores, the swimming birds: geese, swans and ducks, grebes and divers, the auks, among them the extinct Great Auk, and cormorants, gulls, terns, skuas and petrels.

Title
Birds of Great Britain
Published
1862-1873
Format
Imperial folio, 15 × 22 in
Original in
Teylers Museum, Haarlem
Plates
78

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