Birds of Great Britain
By John Gould, 1804-1881
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.
- Published
- 1862-1873
- Format
- Imperial folio
- Sheet
- 15 × 22 in, original size
- Volumes
- 5
- Original in
- Teylers Museum, Haarlem
- In our collection
- 207 prints

All 207 prints

Red-necked Goatsucker
$185

Swift
$185

Alpine Swift
$185

Swallow
$185

House-Martin
$185

Sand-Martin
$185

Sand-Martin Young
$185

Bee-eater
$185

Kingfisher
$185

Roller
$185

Hoopoe
$185

Great Grey Shrike
$185

Rose-breasted Shrike
$185

Butcher-Bird
$185

Woodchat
$185

Pied Flycatcher
$185

White-collared Flycatcher
$185

Spotted Flycatcher
$185

Red-breasted Flycatcher
$185

Waxen Chatterer
$185

Nutbatch
$185

Great Tit
$185

Blue Tit
$185

Coal Tit
$185

Crested Tit
$185

Marsh Tit
$185

Long-tailed Tit
$185

Long-tailed Tit Young
$185

Bearded Tit
$185

Golden Oriole
$185

Thrush
$185

Missel-Thrush
$185

Redwing
$185

Fieldfare
$185

Black-throated Thrush
$185

Blackbird
$185

Ring-Ouzel
$185

White’s Thrush
$185

Siberian Thrush
$185

Black-bellied Water-Ouzel
$185

Blue Rock-Thrush
$185

Rock-Thrush
$185

Wheatear
$185

Whinchat
$185

Red-throated Bluebreast
$185

White-throated Bluebreast
$185

Redstart
$185

Black Redstart
$185
Complete sets
Birds of Great Britain is also available as complete sets, one for each volume, with every plate at the original size, a title page, a contents page and a certificate, in a Solander box.
Limited to 50 sets. Price on request.
