About the original used for our giclées:
Elliot, Daniel Giraud. A Monograph of the Phasianidae or Family of the Pheasants.
New York: by the Author, [1870]-1872
First edition, 2 volumes, 79 fine hand-coloured lithographed plates by Joseph Smit and J.G. Keulemans after Joseph Wolf, 2 uncoloured plates of heads and feet by Smit, list of subscribers, contemporary red morocco gilt, some spotting to the plates as usual, the plate of feathers folded at foot
"of the great nineteenth-century ornithological monographs, none save audubon's is so sumptuous as d.g. elliot's Monograph of the Phasianidae, or Family of the Pheasants... a rare American contribution to this elegant class of books. It was entirely illustrated by the incomparable Joseph Wolf" (R.M. Mengel, "Beauty and the Beast: Natural History and Art"' The Living Bird, 18 Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, 1979-1980).
Recent documentary evidence suggests that the lithographic stones to this work were destroyed after only 150 copies were taken.
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