"...the most magnificent monument to ornithology ever raised – if Mr. Audubon's work is completed – with the magnificence of its execution, we must admit that America has outdone the old world."
1828 quotation from Baron G. Cuvier
Member of the Academy of Sciences of Paris
The book has been realised according to the traditional form of the modern bibliophily.
The Portfolio is composed of 244 pages with full page illustrations in a limited edition of 2500 copies.
Our one of the2265 copies on Main Fleurie paper, numbered 236 to 2500 presented in a olive green cloth-bound box
The John James Audubon's portfolio is introduced by Ben Forkner, an authority on the life and writings of Audubon and a founding member of the Audubon Scientific Committee in France.
The texts from Audubon himself are chosen first to illustrate his approach of drawing in "My Style of Drawing Birds," and his daily life, through letters to his wife, Lucy, and one to John Bachmann, during his trips to Florida, to the Gulf of Mexico and to Labrador, while making his famous Birds of America.
For the new folios, we have used a 200-gram Main Fleurie paper made from new textile fibers. It has been manufactured by Arches in the Vosges, specially for the book. Due to the slow cylinder rotation, the paper has a felt-like softness, very close to handmade paper.
the 48 watercolors of 2,265 suites of the watercolors are printed on 300-gram Main Fleurie paper.
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