Bird Etchings : The Illustrators and Their Books 1655-1855 [new]

Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1989. BRAND NEW in perfect condition. NO rubbing. NO fading. Bright, shiny, clean and tight. Sharp corners. Flat spine. NO creases. NOT a library discard. NO owner's name or bookplate. Fresh and crisp -- obviously never read. With 80 illustrations, mostly full page plates including 4 in color on special glossy paper. Documents the work of 16 notable amateur naturalists/illustrators of bird books from the mid 1600s to the mid 1800s. Includes accounts of the life and works of Francis Willughby, John Ray, Eleazar Albin, Mark Catesby, George Edwards, Thomas Pennant, William Hayes, John Latham, John Walcott, William Lewin, James Bolton, Edward Donovan, George Graves, Prideaux John Selby, Sir William Jardine, and John James LaForest Audubon. Four valuable appendices: 1) Continental Illustrated Bird Books; 2) The Use of Metal for Bird Illustrations; 3) The Main Periodicals with Engraved/Etched Bird Illustrations; 4) Editions, Impressions, and Special Issues. List of chapter notes/sources. Bibliographies. Index of Names. Index of Species. From the rear cover: "This handsome volume surveys bird-book publishing in Britain from just before 1660, when metal-plate printing was introduced, to the mid-nineteenth century, when the process was superseded by lithography. In this period, most of the bird books published in Britain were illustrated by the authors themselves, who learned to etch their drawings on metal plates, It was a time when hundreds of previously unknown species were being discovered in all parts of the world, and a flood of new specimens reached the British Isles. BIRD ETCHINGS tells the story of those who contributed so importantly to the literature of ornithology." By the author of BRITISH NAMES OF BIRDS (1968); BIRD ILLUSTRATORS: SOME ARTISTS IN EARLY LITHOGRAPHY (1975); and WOOD ENGRAVINGS OF BIRDS (1978). Bound in the original pictorial red wraps. 7" wide by 10" tall. . First Paperback Edition. Softcover. New. 293pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.