Snowy Heron
$350 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books
An exceptional and scarce copy of a print made for but not used in the beautifully printed and richly coloured Leipzig edition of Audubon's Birds. Snowy Heron is one of the most desirable plates in the Birds of America, Audubon's masterpiece. This stunning reproduction issue was made using a now antiquated printing technique called collotype which yields quite rich, oil paint-type colours. The Leipzig edition of Audubon's Birds was produced in the early 1970s. The plan was
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