Pp 155 + 14 colored plates reproducing the work of the most noted bird illustrators. Black cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, lg 8vo. There are 14 chapters on the following 19th century ornithological illustrators: William Swainson, Edward Lear, John Gould, Henry Leonard Meyer, Josef Wolf, Joseph Smit, John Gerrard Keulemans, Edward Neale, William Foster, Claude Wilmott Wyatt, Frederick William Frohawk, Henrik Gronvold, Archibald Thorburn, and George Edward Lodge.