Birds.- Beebe (William) A Monograph of the Pheasants, 4 vol., first edition, one of 600 copies, titles printed in red and black, 90 coloured lithographed or collotyped plates after A. Thorburn, G.E. Lodge, H. Gronvold and others 88 photogravure plates (many with two images) from photographs by Beebe and others, 20 distribution maps printed in red and black by Stanford's (chromolithographs and photogravures with captioned tissue-guards), occasional foxing, publisher's maroon cloth, lettered in gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut, [Anker 31; Nissen IVB 84; Zimmer, p. 49], folio, 1918-22.

⁂ "Perhaps the greatest ornithological work of the present century, notable not only for its beauty and the wealth of information it contains, but also for the unusual grace of its prose" (Mengel).