called the Double
Elephant Folio. These same plates, these turkeys,
Audubon is well represented with two
elephant folio prints, Ten Woodpeckers and the Glossy Ibis, and more importantly “Quadrupeds of North America,” John James Audubon and John Bachman, New York, 1854, 3 Vol..
The original edition is sometimes called the Havell Edition after its London printer or the Double
Elephant Folio as the prints were on handmade paper measuring 39.5in by 28.5in.
John James Audubon's double
elephant folio edition of "The Birds of America." This is a touchy one.
This select, 10m [pounds steling] offering has it all: Shakespeare's First Folio (estimate 1m [pounds sterling]-1.5m [pounds sterling]), a copy of the most expensive book in the world, John James Audubon's (1785-1851) spectacular double
elephant folio Birds of America (4m [pounds sterling]-6m; Fig.
If you don't have that kind of money to spare, a "Baby
Elephant Folio" version, less than half the size of the original, is available for a relatively cheap pounds 125 on Amazon.
* Audubon, J.J., Audubon's Birds of America: The Audubon Society Baby
Elephant Folio. Abbeville Press, 2003.
Audubon insisted on printing in the punishingly expensive Double
Elephant folio format, with its 39 x 26 inch pages.
WEST PALM BEACH, FL -- At Artexpo New York 2008, Zebra Publishing will introduce more than 120 images in the "Audubon Centennial Edition" of John James Audubon's "The Birds of America," the Double
Elephant Folio. In association with the National Audubon Society, this unique limited edition is dedicated to its esteemed mission to conserve the world's natural ecosystems.
When he completed the last of his 87 installments in 1839, he had enrolled 161 subscribers for the double
elephant folio edition (an octavo version followed immediately).
Known as an
elephant folio on account of its size, The Birds of America is the most celebrated ornithological work ever published.
The 435 plates comprising the four-volume set were published as a double
elephant folio (39.5" x 29-5 or 100 cm.