Birds.- Gray (George Robert) The Genera of Birds, 3 vol., first edition, list of subscribers, 185 hand-coloured and 150 plain lithograph plates, some of the latter double-page, occasional light foxing and slight browning particularly to gutter of double-page plates, contemporary green half morocco over marbled boards, spines gilt in compartments, very slight rubbing to extremities and spines a little faded, g.e., [Nissen 388; Wood p.367; Ayer & Zimmer pp.268-269], folio,[1837]-44-49.

⁂ Important and beautiful work. David William Mitchell is credited with the illustrations on the title-page but in fact the work of several artists is included, notably Edward Lear (2), H.C. Richter (2) and Joseph Wolf, who was responsible for 11 of the coloured plates and over a third of the plain ones, as well as finishing a number of Mitchell's drawings and transferring them to stone. These represented Wolf's first book illustrations after his move to England. The list of subscribers includes many of the great ornithologists of the day, e.g. J.J. Audubon, John Gould, Sir William Jardine, H.E. Strickland and William Yarrell.