IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 288492 accession number: PB 2-2021 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 15 June 2021 updated: Wednesday 24 January 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Originally issued in 87 parts. "The plates were published without any text, to avoid the necessity of furnishing copies gratis to the public libraries in England, agreeably to the law of copyright."-- Sabin, A dictionary of books relating to America, v. 1, p. 315. Text to accompany the plates was published in 5 vols:., Edinburgh, 1831-39, under title "Ornithological biography, or, An account of the habits of the birds of the United States of America ..." Later editions, of text and plates combined, with alterations, were published in 7 and 8 vols., rl. 8vo., under title "The birds of America, from drawings made in the United States and their territories". title: The birds of America : from original drawings LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Manuscripts and Printed Books STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/288492 CATEGORIES ------ category: book DATING ------ creation date: 1827 - 1838 creation date earliest: 1827 creation date latest: 1838 CREATORS -------- maker: Audubon, John James