Pp. cvii, 408; vii, 390; viii, 523; engraved portrait of Wilson, 97 fine hand-colored engraved plates with some backgrounds colored (76 are after Wilson and 21 are after Titian Peale, A. Rider, and J.J. Audubon), 2 text-figures. Half straight-grain black morocco leather over French marbled boards, top edge gilt, lg 8vo. This is often called the ‘Jardine edition’ because Sir William Jardine wrote the illustrative notes and a section on the life of Wilson. The first edition of this work was published from 1808-1814 in Philadelphia in a small folio format. Wilson described 264 species, 48 species are new to science. The Jardine edition was published in London in 1832 and is the first printing in octavo format. The plates from the first folio edition were re-engraved by Lizars in London in a reduced format and hand-colored for the Jardine edition. Zimmer (p. 684) reports the backgrounds were left uncolored in the Jardine edition but this copy has some backgrounds nicely colored.