Audubon's Birds of America

Naturalist and painter John James Audubon published his magnificent work on the birds of North America over 11 years between 1827 and 1838, in Edinburgh and London. The work contains 435 hand-coloured, life-size prints, created from engraved plates. The original edition of The Birds of America, sometimes called the 'Double Elephant Folio', because of its size was printed on handmade paper 39.5 inches tall by 28.5 inches (99 by 66 cm) wide. The principal printing technique was copperplate et...