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change in subsequent editions of this printed state- 

 ment. 21 



Audubon left Edinburgh for London on Apri 5, 

 1827, with locks shorn but energy unabated. \ l 

 lowed a roundabout course, visiting Belford, "Mitford 

 Castle," Newcastle-upon-Tyne, York, Leeds, Liver 

 pool, and Shrewsbury, at every point extending his ac- 

 quaintance, showing his drawings to many, and adding 

 appreciably to his growing list of subscribers, 

 days were spent in hunting and drawing birds with the 

 Selbys, at their beautiful country place called ' Twizel 

 House," at Belford, in Northumberland, where he was 

 soon made to feel as much at home as with his older 

 Liverpool friends, the Rathbones, at "Green Bank." 

 P. J. Selby, after whom Audubon named a Flycatcher 

 which appeared in his second number, was an amateur 

 artist and ornithologist, and at that time was engaged 

 upon an extensive publication to which Audubon was 



"The work, as originally announced, was to appear in parts of 5 

 plates each at ^ guinea's a part, and in order to distribute the expense 

 to purchasers it was expected to issue but 5 parts a year, 

 to be engraved on copper, were of double elephant folio size, and printe 

 on paper of the finest quality, all the birds and flowers to be life-size, a 

 S" carefully colored by hand, after the originals; -y subscriber 

 was at liberty to take a part or the whole It jas stated m the 

 prospectus of 1829, when 10 parts had been published: "There are < 

 Drawings, and it is proposed that they shall comprise Three Volumes 

 each confining 133 Plates, to which an Index will be given at 

 end of each, J be bound up with the volume. It would be advisable 



for the subscriber to procure a Portfolio, to keep the NwabeW 

 a volume is completed." To avoid the expense entailed by copyrr 

 regulations in England, indices and all other letterpress were eventually 

 omitted; the number of parts was extended to 87, or 435 plates, and the 

 number of volumes to 4, a necessity imposed by the discovery of 

 new birds, even after the omission of the figures of the eggs, whi 

 Audubon had reserved for the close, and the undue crowding of 

 of his final plates. The "Prospectus" issued with the first volume of 

 the text in 1831 contained a list of the first 100 plates, together witl 

 extracts of reviews by Cuvier and Swainson, and a list of subscnb 

 to the number of 180. For further details, see Bibliography, No. 1, a 

 Appendix III, No. 2. 



