Pre-Owned The Art of Bird Illustration : A Visual Tribute to the Lives and Achievements of the Classic Bird Illustrators (Hardcover)

Bird Illustration has been of interest since the Egyptian tomb painters included wildfowl to sustain the dead on their journey into the world beyond. Commentary in this book takes the form of a leisurely stroll through sites along the Nile Valley Pompeii medieval Europe and Baroque aviaries stopping along the way to admire the birds portrayed by the most accomplished artists and ornithologists of their time. Beautifully illustrated. All the plates are reproduced in their original colors and many of them are from specialized galleries and libraries otherwise inaccessible to a wide public.