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<dl><dd>"The following pages are substantially the recently published work [Life and adventures of John James Audubon ... ed. ... by Robert Buchanan. London, 1868] reproduced with some additions, and the omission of several objectionable passages."</dd>
<dd>The copyright notice on the verso of the t.p. is dated 1868</dd>
<dd>'The Trow &amp; Smith Book Manufacturing Company, 46, 48, 50 Greene Street N.Y."--Verso of t.p</dd>
<dd>The portrait frontispiece is signed: Henry Inman; H.B. Hall</dd>
<dd>Engraved title vignette</dd>
<dd>extracted picklist</dd>
<dd>SCNHRB copy 39088014775852 has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Alexander Wetmore, sixth Secretary, 1946-1953. With ms. ink inscription on front free endpaper: A. Wetmore, rec'd from Dr. Hough, 5/8/29; and on t.p.: A.L. Hough (possibly Alfred Lacey Hough, d. 1925, Burmese language teacher at University College London?)</dd>
<dd>SCNHRB copy has the publisher's gilt-stamped brown embossed cloth binding with colored paper onlays on the front cover, brown polished endpapers, and all edges gilt</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Audubon, John James, 1785-1851; Ornithologists; Natural history illustrators</div>
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<dl><dd>Audubon, John James, 1785-1851</dd>
<dd>Audubon, Lucy Green Bakewell, 1788-1874</dd>
<dd>Buchanan, Robert Williams, 1841-1901</dd>
<dd>Wilson, Jas. Grant</dd>
<dd>Inman, Henry, 1801-1846, ill</dd>
<dd>Hall, Henry Bryan, 1808-1884, engraver</dd>
<dd>Hough, A. L. (Alfred Lacey), d. 1925, former owner. DSI</dd>
<dd>Wetmore, Alexander, 1886-1978, former owner. DSI</dd>
<dd>Trow &amp; Smith, printer</dd></dl></div>
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