This miniature edition of Audubon’s The Birds of America displays all 435 of Audubon’s brilliant hand-colored engravings in exquisite reproductions taken from the original plates of the Audubon Society’s archival copy of the rare Double Elephant Folio. Issued with the full endorsement and cooperation of the Audubon Society, this folio is graced with an illuminating introduction by Roger Tory Peterson that places Audubon in his ornithological and art historical context.
Hard cover
Abbeville Press, 2004
4” x 4.4"