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BRASHER, Rex. Birds and Trees of North America. Chickadee Valley, near Kent, Connecticut: Rex Brasher Associates, 1929-1932.
12 volumes, oblong 2° (305 x 445mm.). 867 photogravure plates after Brasher, hand-coloured by pochoir and airbrush, 9 colour illustrations and several hand-coloured pictorial initial letters, each volume with title signed by Brasher and limitation details in his hand. (21 preliminary leaves holed due to insect damage, including four titles.) Half leather gilt, hand-coloured pictorial masonite boards (extremities slightly rubbed).
FIRST EDITION. "The most ambitious publication of colored plates of birds executed this century." (Yale/Ripley 39). Brasher had originally planned to issue 500 copies of the work, but the depression reduced the number of subscribers to 100: the present copy is number 88. The plates depict over 1000 species and sub-species of birds, both those native to America and some seasonal visitors, as well as nearly 400 types of tree. Brasher's text, with its sometimes eccentric spellings, is often printed in calligraphic type, and is interspersed with illustrations and poetic quotations. See Nissen IVB 134 (requires only 864 plates). (12)
12 volumes, oblong 2° (305 x 445mm.). 867 photogravure plates after Brasher, hand-coloured by pochoir and airbrush, 9 colour illustrations and several hand-coloured pictorial initial letters, each volume with title signed by Brasher and limitation details in his hand. (21 preliminary leaves holed due to insect damage, including four titles.) Half leather gilt, hand-coloured pictorial masonite boards (extremities slightly rubbed).
FIRST EDITION. "The most ambitious publication of colored plates of birds executed this century." (Yale/Ripley 39). Brasher had originally planned to issue 500 copies of the work, but the depression reduced the number of subscribers to 100: the present copy is number 88. The plates depict over 1000 species and sub-species of birds, both those native to America and some seasonal visitors, as well as nearly 400 types of tree. Brasher's text, with its sometimes eccentric spellings, is often printed in calligraphic type, and is interspersed with illustrations and poetic quotations. See Nissen IVB 134 (requires only 864 plates). (12)