A monograph of the Ramphastidae, or family of toucans / by John Gould, F.L.S
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P", "Lear, Edward", "Temminck, C. J"], "topic": ["Toucans", "Birds in art"], "language": ["English language"], "usage_flag": ["BHLEX"], "online_media_type": ["Scanned books"]}, "freetext": {"date": [{"label": "Date", "content": "1833"}, {"label": "Date", "content": "1835"}], "identifier": [{"label": "Call number", "content": "QL696.P57 G697 1833"}, {"label": "Call number", "content": "QL696.P57G697"}], "notes": [{"label": "Notes", "content": "Issued in 3 parts between 1833-1835. The title page is dated 1834, as it was originally intended for the work to be complete in 2 parts."}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "Contains 33 full-page hand-colored lithographs by Edward Lear (10) and John Gould and Elizabeth Gould (23), printed by C. Hullmandel. The illustrations were colored by or under the supervision of Gabriel Bayfield; see Jackson, Christine E. Dictionary of bird artists of the world, 1999, page 151. Each is accompanied by leaf of descriptive letterpress, some printed on both sides."}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "Each leaf of plates is accompanied by a leaf of descriptive letterpress and a blank guard-sheet; some of the text leaves are printed on both sides."}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "In some copies, \"Ramphastos vitellinus\" is signed by Lear in the image and dated April 1833, but the engraved caption assigns the work to J. & E. Gould instead."}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "Plates preceded by title page, dedication leaf for Professor Temminck of Leyden, and list of subscribers (3 unnumbered leaves in total); and Preface, Introduction, Addenda to the introduction, and \"Synopsis specierum\" (13 pages on 7 unnumbered leaves). Plates divided into two groups, genus Ramphatos and genus Pteroglossus, with each group preceded by unnumbered leaf with notes on the genus. In the second edition (1854), 5 genera are distinguished."}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "The second edition ([1852]-1854) contains 51 full-page hand-colored lithographs by John Gould and H.C. Richter. Four of the plates are copies or free copies of the lithographs in this edition: Ramphastos culminatus, originally drawn and lithographed by Edward Lear; Ramphastos dicolorus, Aulacoramphus Derbianus (Pteroglossus Derbianus in this edition) and Aulacoramphus haematopygius (Pteroglossus haematopygius in this edition), originally drawn and lithographed by John Gould and Elizabeth Gould. Of the others, 28 are new renderings (a few loosely based on plates in this edition) of the remaining species represented in this edition, except for one here omitted; 19 represent newly identified species (in one case, newly distinguished)."}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "Twenty of the 1854 plates, representing the newly identified species and one species newly distinguished as two, were reprinted in 1855 with their accompanying letterpress as a supplement to this edition, under the title: Supplement to the first edition of A monograph of the Ramphastidae, or family of toucans."}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "\"Observations on the anatomy of the toucan,\" by R. Owen (on 2 unnumbered leaves, printed on both sides, typically bound in at the end of the volume) is accompanied by a full-page uncolored lithograph, signed G. Scharf del. et lithog., printed by Hullmandel."}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "For a detailed discussion of the dates of issue, see item number 3 in G.C. Sauer's bibliography of \"John Gould's major published works\" in John Gould the bird man: a chronology and bibliography."}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "Anker, J. Bird books and bird art, entry 170"}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "Catalogue of the Edward E. Ayer Ornithological Library, pages 379-380"}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "Sauer, G.C. John Gould, the bird man: a chronology and bibliography, number 3 (pages 25-26)"}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "Also available online."}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "SCNHRB copy 39088002711638 is bound with: Gould, John. A monograph of the Trogonidae, or family of trogons. London : Printed by Richard and John E. Taylor, published by the author, [1835-]1838 (barcode mq2009513). Bound together subsequent to publication."}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "SCNHRB copy had all illustrated plates present at time of recataloging (January 2019)."}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "SCNHRB copy's illustrations of Ramphastos vitellinus is signed by Lear, dated April 1833, and has the engraved caption \"E. Lear del. et lithog.\" rather than the attribution to the Goulds."}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "SCNHRB copy has Owen's \"Observations on the anatomy of the toucan\" bound in following the \"Synopsis specierum\" in the preliminaries."}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "SCNHRB copy has mounted on the front free endpaper: A handwritten note in ink on a slip of paper with printed letterhead (\"Smithsonian Institution, United States National Museum, memorandum), addressed to Smithsonian Secretary S.P. Langley and mentioning the presentation to the library of \"A specimen of an attempt to analyse the air,\" singed by E. Mearns, with stamps dated Jan. 8, 1892."}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "SCNHRB copy has a later red buckram library binding with gilt-lettered spine, gray endpapers, and marbled edges. \"Division of Birds\" is stamped on the front free endpaper; \"Smithsonian Institution National Museum, Aug. 9, 1900\" is stamped on page [5]. Accession number: 167626."}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "Elecresource"}], "name": [{"label": "publisher", "content": "Gould, John 1804-1881"}, {"label": "dedicatee", "content": "Temminck, C. 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