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Atlas volume for Land Birds only, folio (24 1/2 x 19 1/2 in.; 62.2 x 49.5 cm). 72 EXCEPTIONALLY FINE etched plates by Selby, Robert Mitford and W. H. Lizars after Selby, Mitford and Sir William Jardine, WITH RICHLY SATURATED HANDCOLORING on paper watermarked Ruse & Turners 1818, J. Whatman 1820 and 1821, and J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1822 and 1823; lacks title-page, some occasional insignificant spotting. PLATE COLLATION: numbered I, I*, III-XIII, XIII*, XIV, XV, XV*, XVI, XVII, XVII*, XVIII, XVIII*, XIX-XXVII, XVII*, XXVIII-XXXI, XXXIII (Nutcracker), XXXIV, XXXIV*, XXXV, XXXVI (Jay), XXXVI (Starling with Rose-Coloured Pastor), XXXVII-XLII, XLII*, XLIII*, XLIV, LIV, XLV, XLV**, XLV*, XLVI-XLIX, L-LIII, LVI, LVI*, LVII-LVIII, LVIII*, LIX, LXI, LXIII, LXV. Contemporary half brown morocco over brown marbled cloth, front cover lettered gilt, marbled endpapers, the spine in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands ruled in gilt; extremities a bit scuffed. [WITH]: "Contents of Number Third" and "Contents of Number Fifth". Edinburgh: Daniel Lizars and London: Longman, Rees, Orme [ca 1818-1823]. 4to., comprising pp. [25-]38 & [65-]87. Uniformly bound in brown marbled cloth. Being the accompany text for original fascicles 3 and 5, concerning the Rough-Legged Buzzard, Jer-Falcon, Peregrine Falcon, Short-eared Owl, Rook, Rose-Coloured Pastor, Starling, Cuckoo, Hoopoe, King's-Fisher, Goatsucker, Black Grouse, Partridge, Wheat-Ear, Whin-Chat, Stone-Chat, Common Buzzard, Raven, Hooded Crow, Nutcracker, Roller, Black Grouse, Collared Pratincole, Crossbill, Chimney Swallow, Martin, Sand Martin, Swift, Spotted Fly-Catcher, Pied Fly-Catcher, Hedge Accentor, Nightingale, Redbreast, Redstart, Greater Pettychaps, Blackcap, Dartford Warbler, White Throat, Pied Wagtail, Grey Wagtail, Yellow Wagtail, Meadow Pipit, Tree Pipit, and the Rock Pipit. THE "ENGLISH EQUIVALENT OF AUDUBON'S GREAT WORK" (Mullens and Swann). A FINE AND EARLY COLLECTION OF PLATES FROM THE FIRST EDITION OF THE ATLAS VOLUME, CONTAINING IMAGES OF LAND BIRDS, TO SELBY'S BRITISH ORNITHOLOGY, officially published in 1834, but issued from 1819 to 1840 in irregular intervals and this is reflected in the erratic numbering of the plates. Prideaux John Selby "was very gifted as an artist, and the two volumes of "Illustrations of British Ornithology" are outstandingly beautiful. In many people's estimation, the clarity and crispness of his figures give them an austere beauty that is lacking in the pretty lithographs in H.L. Meyer's and John Gould's books about British birds . The cool, classical quality of Selby's plates belongs to the age of elegance and could never have been achieved by the Victorian John Gould. Selby's bird figures were the most accurate delineations of British birds to that date, and the liveliest. After so many books with small, stiff bird portraits, this new atlas with its life-size figures and more relaxed drawing was a great achievement in the long history of bird illustration" (Jackson). REFERENCES: BM(NH) IV, p. 1896; cf. Fine Bird Books (1990) p.141; Mullens & Swann p. 519; Nissen IVB 853; cf. Wood pp. 561-562; cf. Zimmer pp. 571-572, cf. C. Jackson, Bird Etchings, 1985. PROVENANCE: The Foljambe Collection of Books, Removed from Osberton Hall, (sale, Christie's New York, 30 April 2008, lot 50) (L64F18H). N° de ref. del artículo 72nhr211
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