Volume 1

The viviparous quadrupeds of North America / By John Audubon ... and ... the Rev. John Bachman ... [Text].

  • Audubon, John James, 1785-1851.
Date:
1846-1854
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The viviparous quadrupeds of North America / By John Audubon ... and ... the Rev. John Bachman ... [Text]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    much irregularity or delay in the appearance of the remaining plates. Our sincere thanks are respectfully offered to our patrons for their liberal and generous encouragement of this under- taking, and we beg to assure them we shall ever entertain a lively sense of the interest they have taken in the work, and the substantial support vouchsafed us. A list of sub- scribers will be found appended to this volume, and far- ther subscriptions will be acknowledged in our next. Some of the drawings have been executed by J. W. Au- dubon, under our direction, and he is now engaged in Europe in making figures of those arctic animals, of which accessible specimens exist only in the museums of that quar- ter of the globe. Many of the backgrounds were painted by V. G. Audubon. Of the manner in which the various artists engaged upon the illustrations, under the direction of Mr. J. T. Bowen, have done their part, our subscribers are able to judge for them- selves : we feel desirous, however, to say, that to our mind the work has been executed in a beautiful style, and we wish publicly to express our thanks to Mr. Bowen, to Mr. Trimbly, Mr. Hitchcock, and the other artists who transferred the original drawings to the stone, and to Mr. Bisbaugii, whose impressions from their plates merit our praise. To all the other artists employed by us we also owe our acknowledg- ments for their valuable assistance. Of the style in which the letter-press is printed, we need only say, it was done at the establishment of Mr. Henry Ludwig of this city, and that it has given us satisfaction. New-York, November, 1846.