10 original parts, folio (29 1/2 x 23 3/8 in.; 750 x 595 mm). 20 chromolithographic plates (20 x 13 3/8 in.; 580 x 370 mm), some finished by hand and heightened with gum arabic, after Pope by Armstrong and Co., mounted on card, accompanying text leaves by Ingersol; 5 chromolithographs with minor foxing barely affecting images ("Black Duck," "Roughed Grouse," "Upland Plover," and "Canvas-Back Duck"), 2 with heavier foxing ("Mountain Quail" and "Widgeon"), 1 with rubbing to lower margin of image ("Upland Plover"), foxing to text leaves and mounts, some with closed tears. Original gray pictorial wrappers printed in black; foxing to wrappers, some with closed tears, Part 1 with chip to margin of upper wrapper, all rebacked. Original portfolio, quarter brown calf over green pebbled cloth, gilt title and text to upper cover with gilt fern and leaf motif; spine rebacked. In blue quarter morocco and cloth clamshell case.  

Litchfield 52; Ayer/Zimmer 494; Fine Bird Books 101; Gee 80; McGill/Wood 522; Nissen IVB 737; Nissen SVB 389

FIRST EDITION BY A RENOWNED AMERICAN SPORTING ARTIST who specialized in animal and still life paintings. His works helped popularize the genre in late nineteenth-century America.