Price: $250.00
SKU: 54891
ARTIST: Eleazer Albin
PUBLISHER: Published London.
MEDIUM: Etching, with original hand color,
DATE: 1731-38.
EDITION SIZE: Platemark 10 1/4 x 8 3/4" (262 x 223 mm).
DESCRIPTION: From Albin's "A Natural History of Birds". This is the earliest comprehensive British work with colored plates, all 300 of which were etched and colored personally by Albin and his wife, Elizabeth. Albin's and Cateby's works were also the earliest ornithological books to illustrate American birds.
ADDITIONAL INFO:
CONDITION: Good condition save trimmed to image at right.
REFERENCE: Nissen SVB5. Sitwell, Fine Bird Books, 71.
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