Extinct bird from Audubon's Royal Octavo
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Author: Audubon, John James
Title: Carolina Parrot or Parrakeet
Place Published: Philadelphia
Publisher:J.T. Bowen
Date Published: 1840-44
Description: Hand-colored lithograph by J.T. Bowen after painting by John James Audubon. (Royal Octavo) 25.8x16.8 cm (10¼x6½”).One of a handful of birds represented in Audubon‘s Birds of America that has gone extinct since the work‘s publication. Plate 278 from fascicle 56 in the Royal Octavo edition.For this octavo edition, the plates, accompanied for the first time by the text, were reduced and modified from the original Havell engravings for the London double-elephant folio. The plates were reduced by camera lucida and some of the backgrounds entirely changed or greatly modified. The original compositions were altered so that only one species is depicted per plate. The octavo Birds of America was originally issued in 100 parts, each containing five plates.
Author: Audubon, John James
Title: Carolina Parrot or Parrakeet
Place Published: Philadelphia
Publisher:J.T. Bowen
Date Published: 1840-44
Description: Hand-colored lithograph by J.T. Bowen after painting by John James Audubon. (Royal Octavo) 25.8x16.8 cm (10¼x6½”).One of a handful of birds represented in Audubon‘s Birds of America that has gone extinct since the work‘s publication. Plate 278 from fascicle 56 in the Royal Octavo edition.For this octavo edition, the plates, accompanied for the first time by the text, were reduced and modified from the original Havell engravings for the London double-elephant folio. The plates were reduced by camera lucida and some of the backgrounds entirely changed or greatly modified. The original compositions were altered so that only one species is depicted per plate. The octavo Birds of America was originally issued in 100 parts, each containing five plates.
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One edge rough where removed from binding; a few hints of foxing; else very good.
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Extinct bird from Audubon's Royal Octavo
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