524 Correspondence. [o"t. 



This surmise is rendered a certainty by a copy of a book now in my pos- 

 session. It consists of the ninety-seven hand-colored copper plates of 

 Jardine's edition, printed on larger paper, with three title-pages bound in. 

 The titles read as follows: — 



Illustrations | of the | American Ornithology | of | Alexander Wilson, | 

 and | Charles Lucian Bonaparte. | Engraved by W. H. Lizars, | and 

 Coloured by Captain Thomas Brown, F. L. S. | President of the Royal 

 Physical Society. | Edinburgh: | Printed by Andrew Shortrede. | MDCCC 

 XXXII. 



The book is of a squarish shape and might well be termed a small quarto. 

 It is bound in full green morocco, gilt-edges. The plates (trimmed) 

 measure 10 in. X 7§ in. In untrimmed copies of Jardine's edition these 

 plates measure 8| in. X 5§ in. This book was offered for sale in 1918 by' 

 E. P. Dutton & Co. of New York (catalogue price, $40); was bought by 

 N. J. Bartlett & Co. of Boston and sold by them to Mr. John E. Thayer 

 of Lancaster, Mass., who generously gave it to me. 



In Maggs Bros.' catalogue No. 316, London, November, 1913, a book 

 was advertised called 'Wilson (Alex.) and Bonaparte (Charles Lucian), 

 Illustrations of American Ornithology,' 4to, morocco, gilt, Edinburgh, 

 1832, £4, 4s. It was described as a complete set, on large paper, of the 

 plates of Jardine's edition, with three title-pages bound in. What I infer 

 from the description was the same copy was still offered for sale at the 

 same price in Maggs' catalogue, No. 355, in 1917. Judging from the descrip- 

 tion this was without doubt the same work that Mr. Thayer secured and 

 I fancy from its peculiarities that it was the identical copy. 



Since the publication of my letter in 'The Auk' of April, 1903, I have 

 succeeded in placing eight more copies of Brown's folio 'Illustrations.' 

 I append a census of the known copies, which I hope may be the means of 

 bringing others to the light. 



It appears from contemporary notices that a few copies of the folio 

 edition were issued in elephant folio. The only example of this edition de 

 luxe that I know of is one that I bought of Walter T. Spencer, a London 

 bookseller, in July, 1904. It was offered for sale in Spencer's catalogue 

 No. 120 for £3, 10s. Mr. Spencer informed me that he got it at an auction 

 sale in Dundee in the winter of 1903-04. It lacks six plates (4, 5, 11, 14, 

 84, 93), but is otherwise in superb condition, and is bound, uncut, in half 

 green-morocco. The plates measure 27 in. X 22 in.; they are colored 

 (especially as regards the landscape accessories of the water-bird plates) 

 more skillfully than in the smaller folio issue. 



Of the smaller, royal folio issue, I have located the following copies: — 



1. Library of the Zoological Society of London. A perfect copy, which 

 I collated May 8, 1902 (see 'The Auk,' April, 1903, p. 237). 



2. Library of Cambridge University. This copy was bought in 1900 

 for £2, 5s. from Richard Cameron, a book-dealer of Edinburgh, by Pro- 

 fessor Alfred Newton of Magdalen College, Cambridge. From a letter 

 which I received from Professor Newton in July, 1900, I learn that this 



