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8" by 6" Coloured drawing from the
British Bird Book edited by F B Kirkman 1911-1913.
These coloured drawinngs have amazing detail not only for
the Bird it portrays but in making the background environment look so natural
with Wild Flowers, Grasses and Trees and some have a background landscape.
Each picture should be examined closely as some of the birds are well camouflaged
as they would be nature.
They are 89 years old and
not modern copies.
Page size is 12" by 9.34" and the image shown
might appear on your screen a little larger than the actual, this will help
in showing the detail as mentioned above.
Each plate comes with its own cover page see second image.
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Text Taken from PageIX
DRAWINGS
Bird Drawings.-The coloured drawings are
intended to help the reader to
Identify the species he sees. For this purpose they must always, if faithful
to their originals, be superior to a photograph or a black and white drawing,
how ever good, for it is by its coloration that a bird is most quickly and
certainly recognised.
In order to ensure accuracy, the birds have, whenever possible, and in nearly
all cases,
been drawn from life, not from skins or stuffed specimens, which are often
misleading; and, further, no effort has been spared to overcome the difficulties
that still hinder accurate reproduction by the three-colour process.
The object of the coloured drawings
is, however, to supply something more
than a portrait of each species for purposes of identification. The traditional
bird perched on the conventional twig, and regarding space with an eye of
philosophic detachment from mundane affairs, can no longer satisfy a public
familiar with the latest achievements of natural history photography. Each
picture, therefore, besides being a portrait, will, apart from a few exceptions
that explain themselves, offer a study of some habit of the bird or of one
of its most characteristic and striking attitudes. It will show it in its
natural surroundings, whether courting, singing, feeding its young, sitting
on its nest, angry, pleased, alarmed, or inquisitive, thus combining the realism
of the photograph with the added advantage of colour and artistic treatment.
The task here imposed upon the artist has been far from easy, and in judging
the results the great difficulties of the undertaking should be allowed for.
Coloured drawings are given of all the species described in the chapters,
with
the exception of a few, such as the chiff-chaff, Kentish-plover and little-stint,
which a few words of comparison with closely allied species suffice to identify.
The rare species described in the supplementary chapter at the end of the
book are
illustrated where necessary by line drawings only. In the case of these species
coloured drawings would have served no purpose worth the increased price it
would have been necessary to place on the book, for they only interest specialists,for
whom descriptions and line drawings are adequate.
Egg Drawings.
On the egg plates all our British breeding species are represented, and in
most cases it
has been necessary to show two or more variant types of the egg of the same
species.
As the sole object of these plates is to aid in identification,
no attempt has been made
to show the finer variations; the same principle has determined the relative
amount of
space allotted to different species, more being given to eggs of which the
identification
is likely to cause difficulty.
Each drawing is natural size and set upon a background specially designed
to show it to the best advantage.
Arrangements are made by which, when the parts are finally bound up, these
plates can be placed together at the end of the book. This will obviate the
prolonged and irritating hunt for the egg required that often occurs when
the plates are left dispersed through the text.
In the case of birds with white eggs, outline drawings to show the shape are
given. As the eggs of the ducks are very much alike, and are consequently
difficult to identify either by colour or shape, plates have been added showing
the normal differences of colour in the down which they use for the construction
of their nests.
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