The Birds of North America, drawn and colored from nature page edges decorated in faint

page edges decorated in faint red dots

19 full page black-and-white plates

Publisher’s original gray coarse-weave cloth

Contemporary full brown calf leather

The Birds of North America, drawn and colored from nature page edges decorated in faintPp. (4), 16, 182 (10, index), 119 color plates (chromolithographs). One quarter dark wine red morocco leather, spine with five raised bands, lettered in gilt in three compartments over maroon red cloth boards with beveled edges, with a large ornate gilt title on the from cover, brown floral endpapers, top page edge in gilt, folio (15 inches x 12. 5 inches). The 119 chromolithographs plates are from drawings by Theodore Jasper. This classic work, first