GOULD, John. An Introduction to the Birds of Australia , London: printed for the author, by Richard and John E. Taylor, 1848. 8° (220 x 135mm.), 148pp. including half-title, title, notice, preface, introduction, prospectus, list of subscribers and press notices. Original brown blind-stamped cloth, lettered in gilt on upper cover (rebacked with brown morocco). PRESENTATION COPY to the naturalist W.C.L. Martin with autograph inscription on half-title and autograph annotations and corrections in the text. This small volume contains the same material, with minor exceptions, as the introductory material in Gould's large folio Birds of Australia , and only a limited number (150?) of copies were published. In his Notice the author explains "The Preface and Introduction...having been set up in small type for facility of correction, I have had a limited number of copies printed in an octavo form, for distribution among my scientific friends and others...They must however still regard it more as a proof-sheet than otherwise inasmuch as it contains many imperfections, most of which have been corrected in the folio edition...". Sauer 15; Zimmer p. 257; Ferguson 4772.
GOULD, John. An Introduction to the Birds of Australia , London: printed for the author, by Richard and John E. Taylor, 1848. 8° (220 x 135mm.), 148pp. including half-title, title, notice, preface, introduction, prospectus, list of subscribers and press notices. Original brown blind-stamped cloth, lettered in gilt on upper cover (rebacked with brown morocco). PRESENTATION COPY to the naturalist W.C.L. Martin with autograph inscription on half-title and autograph annotations and corrections in the text. This small volume contains the same material, with minor exceptions, as the introductory material in Gould's large folio Birds of Australia , and only a limited number (150?) of copies were published. In his Notice the author explains "The Preface and Introduction...having been set up in small type for facility of correction, I have had a limited number of copies printed in an octavo form, for distribution among my scientific friends and others...They must however still regard it more as a proof-sheet than otherwise inasmuch as it contains many imperfections, most of which have been corrected in the folio edition...". Sauer 15; Zimmer p. 257; Ferguson 4772.
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