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two copies of the folio (imp. 4to) editions of the Illustrations 
being alike. This is owing to the fact that many extra plates 
were coloured and added to copies executed for friends of 
the Meyer family. Thus in Major Terry’s folio (imp. 4to) 
copy there are no less than three hundred and thirty-five 
plates instead of three hundred and thirteen as issued. 
Major Terry’s father, who was born at Esher, Surrey, 1810, 
was a personal friend of Meyer, and this copy was especially 
prepared for him. 
The difficulty is added to from the fact that there were 
certainly two, possibly three issues of the first edition of the 
folio, and that the later ones were being published before the 
first was complete, the plates often being interchanged or 
duplicated. 
It may be said in conclusion that Meyer’s Illustrations 
is one of our most valuable illustrated works on ornithology, 
in fact before the publication of Lord Lilford’s Birds of the 
British Islands it stood sui generis. 
[1835-41.] Illustrations | of | British Birds, | by | H. L. Meyer | Yol. 1. 
[II., III., IV.] | London, Longman & Co. [n.d.]. 
Collation — 4 vols. imp. 4to (usually called folio). Yol. I., 78 
plates ; Yol. II., 73 plates ; Vol. III., 80 plates ; Vol. IV., 82 
plates = 313 plates in all. Title-page and table of contents (each 
1 page) for each volume. Names of birds printed below plates 
and in some cases two or three lines of description. [No 
letterpress.] The plates were also issued uncoloured for the 
first number. 
The above, the first issue of the first edition, was issued in 
79 monthly parts, commencing in March 1835 and concluding in 
September (?) 1841. The parts are bound in pink wrappers. 
The legend on the front wrapper of the first part of the first 
issue is as follows : 
No. (1 in MS.). (March in MS.) 183(5 in MS.). 
Under the Especial Patronage | of | their Most Gracious 
Majesties | and her Boyal Highness | The Duchess of Kent. | 
Illustrations | of | British Birds. | Bespectfully dedicated | to 
the President and Council of the | Linnean Society of London. | 
Consisting of | coloured figures of the Birds that are indigenous to 
Great Britain, or that | visit the British Isles in the course of their 
periodical migrations ; accom- | panied by their eggs, and, in 
some instances, the nest, when curious or | rare. The female will 
be introduced, whenever her plumage differs | materially from 
