Birds of Great Britain
Contents
John Gould, 1862-1873
Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 4, complete set
By John Gould, 1862-1873
All 12 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.
- 12 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
Limited to 50 sets, each numbered and embossed.
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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 4 of five holds the Rasores and Grallatores, birds of the ground and the water’s edge: pigeons, grouse, bustards, cranes, herons, plovers and crakes. Its Moorhen was drawn by Joseph Wolf from a rough sketch attributed to Gould.
- Title
- Birds of Great Britain
- Published
- 1862-1873
- Format
- Imperial folio, 15 × 22 in
- Original in
- Teylers Museum, Haarlem
- Plates
- 12
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