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Item Details
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| Author: |
Brasher, Rex |
| Title: |
Birds and Trees of North America |
| Place: |
Chickadee Valley near Kent, CT |
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| Date: |
1929-32 |
| Item # : |
167925 |
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| Sale Number |
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331 |
| Lot Number |
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47 |
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| Hunting - Sporting - Angling - Natural History; with Books in All Fields |
| Sale Date |
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05/11/2006 |
| Price realized |
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$ 3162 |
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| Description: |
| 4 volumes. Illustrated with 275 total hand-colored plates, containing 346 species and subspecies of birds and 155 species of trees. (Oblong folio) 12x17½, original half suede and pictorial boards, gilt-lettered. Each No. 106 of 500 hand-numbered sets, signed by Brasher above limitation in each volume. |
| "This monumental work is the most ambitious publication of colored plates executed in this century. Mr. Brasher's loving care bestowed on each hand-colored plate is in the tradition of a hundred years earlier...Brasher's 'Birds and Trees' belongs in a special category that is unique. Brasher has not written a great deal but his pages are interlarded with poetic imagery, often printed in contrasting italic or manuscript-style type. He has been content to stand on his paintings and the time-consuming method of their reproduction. His work stands apart on the sidelines of time, not to be judged with his contemporaries, nor indeed to be criticized. It is simply Rex Brasher" (Ripley & Scribner, Ornithological Books in Yale including the Library of W.C. Coe, p.39). The plates were made by a complicated process, beginning with photogravure of each original, then hand-colored by Brasher using an airbrush and pochoir process. Although 500 copies of the set were planned, the work was apparently a victim of the Depression and the print-run was reduced to 100 copies. |
| Condition: |
| Most joints split with covers loose (but still attached), small nicks to suede, shelf wear; internally clean and bright with occasional light foxing; very good or better overall. |
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