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Ornithology from a Private European Collection
ELLIOT, Daniel Giraud (1835-1915)
A Monograph of the Phasianidae or Family of the Pheasants. New York: published by the author, [1870]-1872.
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ELLIOT, Daniel Giraud (1835-1915)
A Monograph of the Phasianidae or Family of the Pheasants. New York: published by the author, [1870]-1872.
The most splendid of Elliot's great monographs, described by Sitwell as 'the equal in every way to any work by Gould'. R.M. Mengel went further, noting that 'of the great nineteenth-century ornithological monographs, none save Audubon's is so sumptuous' ('Beauty and the Beast: Natural History and Art', The Living Bird, 1979-1980).
Issued in 6 parts between June 1870 and October 1872, the large size of the plates allied with the meticulous way in which they are coloured, gives them a magnificence which reflects the importance which Elliot attached to the Phasianidae. Of all the families in the ornithological system, he regarded it as the one most vital to the human race, 'containing within it the species that afford food for thousands of mankind, and also those which are the original source of all the domestic poultry met with throughout the civilized world.' He generously dedicated the work 'To my friend Joseph Wolf... whose unrivalled talent has graced this work with its chief attraction, and whose marvellous power of delineating animal life renders him unequalled in our time'. Anker 130; Fine Bird Books (1990) p.95; Nissen IVB 295; Wood p. 331; Zimmer p. 206.
2 volumes, broadsheet folio (620 x 480mm). 2pp. list of subscribers (listing 115 names subscribing for 119 copies). 79 fine hand-coloured lithographic plates, 1 folding; after Joseph Wolf by J. Smit and J.G. Keulemans, printed by M. and N. Hanhart and P.W.M. Trap, coloured by J. D. White, 2 uncoloured plates of generic characteristics, on india paper mounted, by and after Smit (blank prelim in vol. I with light diagonal creasing, occasional faint scattered spotting mostly affecting text leaves, text leaves to Euplocamus pyronotus and Calophasis ellioti in vol. 2 lightly creased). Contemporary red half morocco over marbled-paper covered boards, gilt spines with raised bands in 6 compartments, lettered in second and fourth, the others with triple gilt fillets inclosing cornerpieces composed of very small flower heads, rosettes and scroll tools, top edges gilt, others uncut, preserving original wrappers bound in at end of vol. 2 (extremities rubbed, raised bands and corners more heavily). Provenance: Iveagh (small ink stamps dated 1894 on front prelims in both vols).
A Monograph of the Phasianidae or Family of the Pheasants. New York: published by the author, [1870]-1872.
The most splendid of Elliot's great monographs, described by Sitwell as 'the equal in every way to any work by Gould'. R.M. Mengel went further, noting that 'of the great nineteenth-century ornithological monographs, none save Audubon's is so sumptuous' ('Beauty and the Beast: Natural History and Art', The Living Bird, 1979-1980).
Issued in 6 parts between June 1870 and October 1872, the large size of the plates allied with the meticulous way in which they are coloured, gives them a magnificence which reflects the importance which Elliot attached to the Phasianidae. Of all the families in the ornithological system, he regarded it as the one most vital to the human race, 'containing within it the species that afford food for thousands of mankind, and also those which are the original source of all the domestic poultry met with throughout the civilized world.' He generously dedicated the work 'To my friend Joseph Wolf... whose unrivalled talent has graced this work with its chief attraction, and whose marvellous power of delineating animal life renders him unequalled in our time'. Anker 130; Fine Bird Books (1990) p.95; Nissen IVB 295; Wood p. 331; Zimmer p. 206.
2 volumes, broadsheet folio (620 x 480mm). 2pp. list of subscribers (listing 115 names subscribing for 119 copies). 79 fine hand-coloured lithographic plates, 1 folding; after Joseph Wolf by J. Smit and J.G. Keulemans, printed by M. and N. Hanhart and P.W.M. Trap, coloured by J. D. White, 2 uncoloured plates of generic characteristics, on india paper mounted, by and after Smit (blank prelim in vol. I with light diagonal creasing, occasional faint scattered spotting mostly affecting text leaves, text leaves to Euplocamus pyronotus and Calophasis ellioti in vol. 2 lightly creased). Contemporary red half morocco over marbled-paper covered boards, gilt spines with raised bands in 6 compartments, lettered in second and fourth, the others with triple gilt fillets inclosing cornerpieces composed of very small flower heads, rosettes and scroll tools, top edges gilt, others uncut, preserving original wrappers bound in at end of vol. 2 (extremities rubbed, raised bands and corners more heavily). Provenance: Iveagh (small ink stamps dated 1894 on front prelims in both vols).
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Mark Wiltshire
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