Abbeville Audubon Double Elephant Folio: Barn Swallow

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The Barn Swallow is Plate No.: CLXXIII of the Abbeville Edition of John James Audubon's Birds of America . This print depicts the male and female of the species in their mud nest. My photos of the print do not do it justice unfortunately. To celebrate the 200th birthday of John James Audubon, the National Audubon Society and Abbeville Press produced the Abbeville Edition of Audubon's Birds of America in 1985. All 435 original plates that Audubon had created for his Havell Edition volumes were reproduced in full-size, double elephant folio splendor by the Abbeville Press. The original Havell copy that was used for reprinting belongs to the National Audubon Society, and is considered one of the finest copies in existence. Painstaking efforts were taken to create the Abbeville Edition to be as close to the original Havell volumes as possible. Large-scale photographic transparencies were made of the original prints. This beautiful Abbeville Edition was printed at Toppan Printing Company in Tokyo, Japan and produced on acid-free Mohawk Superfine made at the Mohawk Paper Company in New York. Toppan then used up to thirteen colors for each of the 435 double elephant folio prints. Each print bears the watermark "Audubon Society, Abbeville Press" in italic script. This work was limited in production to 350 copies. The prints I am listing read more

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