Author:

Webber, Charles W (Charles Wilkins) 1819-1856  Search this

Former owner:

Dwight, Jonathan 1858-1929 DSI  Search this

Tucker, Marcia Brady DSI  Search this

Illustrator:

Miller, Alfred Jacob 1810-1874  Search this

Webber, Charles Wilkins Mrs  Search this

Printer:

Rosenthal, L. N (Louis N.)  Search this

Stereotyper:

Smith, Thomas B. 1799-1857  Search this

Physical description:

x, [2], 347 pages, [20] leaves of plates illustrations (chromolithographs) 26 cm

Type:

Outdoor books

Chromolithographs

Guidebooks

Place:

United States

Date:

1854

Notes:

Also issued by same publisher in same year with sub-title: "with twenty illustrations, printed in colors, from drawings by Mrs. C.W. Webber and Alfred J. Miller." Despite the "twenty-five" cited in the title, there are also only 20 plates in this issue

"Stereotyped by Thomas B. Smith, N.Y., printed by Billin, Brothers"--Verso of title page

Chromolithographs signed: "L.N. Rosenthal's Cromo [that is, Chromo] Lith. Philad[elphi]a"

Plates accompanied by guard tissue sheets

Title and text within ruled border

Includes index

Nissen, C. Illustrierten Vogelbücher, 974

Also available online

Elecresource

SCNHRB copy (39088015709041) has bookplates: Jonathan Dwight Jr. [and] Smithsonian Institution Libraries, gift of Marcia Brady Tucker. With the Tucker pencilled collational notes on title page

SCNHRB copy in original black publisher's cloth binding, deeply blind-embossed panels, gilt stamping on covers (spine rebacked), gilt edges

Topic:

Birds  Search this

Natural history  Search this

Call number:

QL676 .W37 1854b

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_960339