AUDUBON, John James (1785-1851). The Birds of America, from Original Drawings by John James Audubon .. Reissued by J[ohn] W[oodhouse] Audubon . New York: Roe Lockwood & Son, 1860. Double elephant broadsheets (1000 x 676 mm). Lithographed title, 150 CHROMOLITHOGRAPHIC PLATES ON 105 SHEETS, some finished by hand, by Julius Bien after J.J.Audubon. (Gutter margin on title renewed, two tiny spots on fore-margin and short marginal tear repaired on lower margin of sheet 1, crease on sheet 3 reinforced on verso, sheet 30 lightly toned overall, some marginal toning on sheets 35 and 42, two short marginal tears on lower margin sheet 52, a half-inch tear on lower margins of sheets 53-62, sheet 57 with long diagonal tear crossing image repaired with color retouched, short tear repaired on lower margin sheet 64, some offsetting to sheet 73, some minor marginal soiling, and light offsetting, but overall very fine and fresh.) (Atlas volume only, without the 7 vols. 8vo text.) Original half plum morocco gilt (rebacked preserving original backstrip, some restoration to corners). A VERY FINE COPY OF THE SECOND FOLIO EDITION. In 1858 or 1859 John Woodhouse Audubon set out to reproduce his father's Birds of America at half the original cost by producing full-size chromolithographic reproductions of the original hand-coloured aquatint plates, and by printing the smaller format plates two to a sheet. To carry out the project he enlisted the well-known cartographer and printmaker Julius Bien who transferred the etchings onto stone, printing the colours and using additional hand-colouring only where necessary. The work was to have been issued in 45 parts, of which one would contain the text, for a total subscription price of $500. Only the first 15 parts and the 7 volumes of octavo text were published, however, before the printing was interrupted by the outbreak of the Civil War, and, it was rumored, by the shady dealings of certain financial backers. "Although only one-third completed when the project collapsed in 1861, the Bien Audubon is the largest and most ambitious color plate book undertaken in 19th-century America, rivaled only by the folio Quadrupeds " (Reese 40). Although a complete full-size reprint of the folio Birds of America had to wait for the Johnson Reprint Corporation's facsimile edition of 1971-1973, the 150 plates reproduced by Bien include many of Audubon's most famous images, such as the wild turkey, the barn owl, the flamingo and the white-headedm eagle. The number of copies has not been established, but Fries had succeded in locating 49 by 1973. The plates, as usual, are dated from 1858-1860, with most numbered with the part and series number at the upper left and the final number (corresponding to the author's 1839 Synopsis ) at upper right.
AUDUBON, John James (1785-1851). The Birds of America, from Original Drawings by John James Audubon .. Reissued by J[ohn] W[oodhouse] Audubon . New York: Roe Lockwood & Son, 1860. Double elephant broadsheets (1000 x 676 mm). Lithographed title, 150 CHROMOLITHOGRAPHIC PLATES ON 105 SHEETS, some finished by hand, by Julius Bien after J.J.Audubon. (Gutter margin on title renewed, two tiny spots on fore-margin and short marginal tear repaired on lower margin of sheet 1, crease on sheet 3 reinforced on verso, sheet 30 lightly toned overall, some marginal toning on sheets 35 and 42, two short marginal tears on lower margin sheet 52, a half-inch tear on lower margins of sheets 53-62, sheet 57 with long diagonal tear crossing image repaired with color retouched, short tear repaired on lower margin sheet 64, some offsetting to sheet 73, some minor marginal soiling, and light offsetting, but overall very fine and fresh.) (Atlas volume only, without the 7 vols. 8vo text.) Original half plum morocco gilt (rebacked preserving original backstrip, some restoration to corners). A VERY FINE COPY OF THE SECOND FOLIO EDITION. In 1858 or 1859 John Woodhouse Audubon set out to reproduce his father's Birds of America at half the original cost by producing full-size chromolithographic reproductions of the original hand-coloured aquatint plates, and by printing the smaller format plates two to a sheet. To carry out the project he enlisted the well-known cartographer and printmaker Julius Bien who transferred the etchings onto stone, printing the colours and using additional hand-colouring only where necessary. The work was to have been issued in 45 parts, of which one would contain the text, for a total subscription price of $500. Only the first 15 parts and the 7 volumes of octavo text were published, however, before the printing was interrupted by the outbreak of the Civil War, and, it was rumored, by the shady dealings of certain financial backers. "Although only one-third completed when the project collapsed in 1861, the Bien Audubon is the largest and most ambitious color plate book undertaken in 19th-century America, rivaled only by the folio Quadrupeds " (Reese 40). Although a complete full-size reprint of the folio Birds of America had to wait for the Johnson Reprint Corporation's facsimile edition of 1971-1973, the 150 plates reproduced by Bien include many of Audubon's most famous images, such as the wild turkey, the barn owl, the flamingo and the white-headedm eagle. The number of copies has not been established, but Fries had succeded in locating 49 by 1973. The plates, as usual, are dated from 1858-1860, with most numbered with the part and series number at the upper left and the final number (corresponding to the author's 1839 Synopsis ) at upper right.
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