Author

HALE, W. G.

Title

The Meyers' coloured illustrations
of British birds and their eggs

Published, Date

Peregrine books, Leeds

Description

Edition limited to 30 Deluxe copies, 33x 23cm., 200pp., 31 coloured illustrations of watercolours of eggs by Mary Annee Meyer, and 9 coloured plates showing birds and variations between the five issues of the original illustrations, also 2 ORIGINAL HAND-COLOURED PLATES from one of the original issues, illustrations in the text, red half morocco gilt, slipcase.

Note

Meyer's Coloured Illustrations of British Birds and their eggs, is not only one of the most beautiful and important British bird books, it also had a very complex publishing history. There were five issues of the book, and after the author's death, the family offered a series of additional watercolours to illustrate eggs not present in some issues of the work. These are known as the "Additional Plates". Professor Hale is the leading authority on this publication which he has studied over many years. the present work is the distillation and fruit of that knowledge. All the known additional plates are featured in Professor Hales' book so that there are images available which complete the missing eggs from any copy of the five editions of the folio Illustrations.

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Stock Number

86606