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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF 
[GOULD 
Gould (John), 1804-81 
Gould will always be remembered by the magnificent 
series of folio works bearing his name (one of which incident- 
ally is the most sumptuous and costly of the British bird 
books), which are excelled in extent and beauty by the 
work of no one other ornithologist, past or present. This 
grand series, totalling over 40 volumes, with more than 3000 
folio hand-coloured plates, comprises the Century of Birds 
from the Himalaya Mountains , 1 vol., 1832 (this occurs in 
two states : one with the background coloured — one without) ; 
Birds of Europe, 5 vols., 1832-37 ; Monograph of Ram- 
phastidce, 1 vol., 1834 ; leones Avium, 2 parts (unfinished), 
1837- 38 ; Monograph of Trogonidce, 1 vol., 1838 ; Birds of 
Australia, 8 vols., 1840-69 ; 1 Monograph of the Trochilidce, 
with Supplement, 6 vols., 1849-87 ; Monograph of Ram- 
phastidee, 2nd edition, 1 vol., 1852-54 ; Monograph of 
Trogonidce, 2nd edition, 1 vol., 1858-75 ; Birds of Asia, 
7 vols., 1850-83 ; Birds of New Guinea (completed by Dr. 
Sharpe), 5 vols., 1875-88 ; Monograph of Odontophorince, 
1 vol., 1844-50 ; and Birds of Great Britain, 5 vols., 1862-73. 
In addition he issued the Mammals of Australia, 3 vols., 
and a Monograph of the Kangaroos . 1 2 
The plates for the earlier works were executed by his 
wife, while for the later works the services of Wolf and other 
artists were enlisted. 
Gould was a native of Lyme Begis, in Dorsetshire, was 
born September 14, 1804, and received his early education at 
Guildford. Evincing, while quite a child, a strong inclination 
towards the study of Nature, and more especially of zoology, 
this inclination was encouraged by his friends, and at about 
fourteen years of age he was placed under the care of 
Mr. J. T. Aiton, at the Boyal Gardens, Windsor, where he 
1 This work first appeared in 1837, but after the issue of the second part in 1838 
was abandoned for want of sufficient material, the issue 1840-48, 7 vols. and Supple- 
ment, 1851-69, 1 vol., being substituted. Gould spent two years and a half in Australia, 
1838- 40, in the preparation of this, his largest work. 
2 For a complete list of his writings, cf. Index of the Works of John Gould, by 
Dr. Bowdler Sharpe, 1 vol. 4to. London : 1893. 
