Pp. 60; 25 superb full-page color plates from paintings by William T. Cooper. Publisher’s original coarse-weave cloth, lettered in black on the spine and with black vignette of perching bird on the front cover, color pictorial dust jacket illustrated with male and female bower-birds on the front cover and male and female flame robins on the rear cover, sm folio (14.25 x 11.25 inches). A beautiful book illustrating a diversity of Australian birds, especially in the parrots, with accompanying text by Keith Hindwood. The plates from paintings by Cooper are among his best examples of bird art.
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