HUGE PJ Selby British Ornithology 1865: TITMOUSE
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C I R Q L A R Original antique prints, books, maps and atlases Image Name GREAT TITMOUSE. BLUE TITMOUSE. COLE TITMOUSE. MARSH TITMOUSE. LONGTAILED TITMOUSE. BEARDED TITMOUSE. Plate # LI. Author/Artist John Prideaux Selby: Illustrations Of British Ornithology . Date of Publication Published London by Henry Bohn, c. 1865 (second edition, in a larger format than the first edition which was published c. 1819-34). Type of Print Original hand colored engraving. Size of Image Large folio: 14 3/8" X 20". (Sheet size dimensions: plate marks are at 10 1/4" X 16") (this plate has been trimmed). Condition In overall very good to excellent condition. Description We are pleased to offer this beautifully original hand colored engraving by John Prideaux Selby (1788-1867), from his monumental work entitled Illustrations Of British Ornithology. '[SELBY'S] GREATEST WORK WILL EVER BE DEEMED HIS CELEBRATED ILLUSTRATIONS OF BRITISH ORNITHOLOGY ... OUR ENGLISH EQUIVALENT OF AUDUBON'S GREAT WORK' (Mullens and Swann, p. 518); this opinion was shared by Selby's contemporaries, who considered it 'the most splendid and costly work yet published on the birds of Great Britain' (William Swainson), illustrated by 'the finest examples extant of ornithological etchings' (Hugh Edwin Strickland, both quoted in: C. Jackson Bird Etchings , Ithaca and London: 1985,
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