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
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.