The John James Audubon portfolio
Subtitle: a selection of the original drawings and watercolors used in the making of Birds of America : accompanied by a choice of Audubon's writings
By: edited with an introduction by Ben Forkner
Contributors: Forkner, Ben
Publisher: Edition de la Main Fleurie
Published: 2004
Place of publication: [Braine-le-Comte, Belgium]
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9782960049305
Subjects: Correspondence; Birds; Pictorial works
Notes: 63 unbound bifolia: xxxix, [1], 202, [6] p. (first and last three leaves blank), and 48 unbound leaves of plates.

"35 copies accompanied by a suite of the illustrations on hand-manufactured pure rag paper and printed with the carbon process, are numbered 1 to 35.  200 copies, accompanied by a suite of the illustrations on Japan "Echizen Torinoko" paper are numbered 36 to 235.  2265 copies, accompanied by a suite of illustrations on 'Main Fleurie' paper, 300 g/m², are numbered 236 to 2500"--Colophon.

LC has copy 352.

LC copy is a gift of Les Editions de la Main Fleurie.