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Red-necked Goatsucker, the first plate of the set
The first plate of the set, Red-necked Goatsucker.

Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 2, complete set

By John Gould, 1862-1873

All 71 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.

  • 71 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. 2Red-necked Goatsucker
  2. 3Swift
  3. 4Alpine Swift
  4. 5Swallow
  5. 6House-Martin
  6. 7Sand-Martin
  7. 8Sand-Martin Young
  8. 9Bee-eater
  9. 10Kingfisher
  10. 11Roller
  11. 12Hoopoe
  12. 13Great Grey Shrike
  13. 14Rose-breasted Shrike
  14. 15Butcher-Bird
  15. 16Woodchat
  16. 17Pied Flycatcher
  17. 18White-collared Flycatcher
  18. 19Spotted Flycatcher
  19. 20Red-breasted Flycatcher
  20. 21Waxen Chatterer
  21. 22Nutbatch
  22. 23Great Tit
  23. 24Blue Tit
  24. 25Coal Tit
  25. 26Crested Tit
  26. 27Marsh Tit
  27. 28Long-tailed Tit
  28. 29Long-tailed Tit Young
  29. 30Bearded Tit
  30. 31Golden Oriole
  31. 32Thrush
  32. 33Missel-Thrush
  33. 34Redwing
  34. 35Fieldfare
  35. 36Black-throated Thrush
  36. 37Blackbird
  37. 38Ring-Ouzel
  38. 39White’s Thrush
  39. 40Siberian Thrush
  40. 42Black-bellied Water-Ouzel
  41. 43Blue Rock-Thrush
  42. 44Rock-Thrush
  43. 45Wheatear
  44. 46Whinchat
  45. 49Red-throated Bluebreast
  46. 50White-throated Bluebreast
  47. 51Redstart
  48. 52Black Redstart
  49. 53Rufous Sedge-Warbler
  50. 54Alpine Accentor
  51. 56Nightingale
  52. 57Whitethroat
  53. 58Lesser Whitethroat
  54. 59Dartford Warbler
  55. 60Blackcap
  56. 61Orphean Warbler
  57. 62Garden Warbler
  58. 63Common Wren
  59. 64Tree-creeper
  60. 65Willow-Wren
  61. 66Chiff-Chaff
  62. 67Wood-Wren
  63. 68Yellow-browed Warbler
  64. 70Fire-crested Wren
  65. 71Melodious Warbler
  66. 72Thrush-Warbler
  67. 73Reed-Warbler
  68. 74Marsh-Warbler
  69. 76Aquatic Warbler
  70. 77Savi’s Warbler
  71. 78Grasshopper Warbler

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 2 of five begins the Insessores, the perching birds: nightjars, swifts and swallows, the Kingfisher and Hoopoe, shrikes, flycatchers, tits, thrushes, chats and warblers, among them the Long-tailed Tit with its young.

Title
Birds of Great Britain
Published
1862-1873
Format
Imperial folio, 15 × 22 in
Original in
Teylers Museum, Haarlem
Plates
71

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