JOHNSON REPRINT CORPORATION

In 1971 the Johnson Reprint Corporation of New York and Theatrum Orbis Terrarum of Amsterdam undertook a full-sized, full-color facsimile edition of Audubon's Birds of America from the prints of the folio at the Tevler's Museum of Haarlem in the Netherlands, one of the original subscribers. This edition was limited to 250 numbered sets of 435 full-color plates (each measuring 38 1/2 inches high and 26 1/2 inches wide), obtainable either in boxed sets of six portfolios, each portfolio comprising six parts (36 parts in all) of loose plates, or in four handbound, half-leather volumes. The price of a boxed set of portfolios was $5940; of a hand-bound set of four volumes, $6960.
The individual parts of the boxed set of six parts, as well as the individual volumes of the bound set, were issued as each became available. The facsimile edition was completed early in 1973.

HERBERT LANG ET CIE. AG
A limited edition of ao selected full-sized (98 X 67 cm), full-color (printed in 7 to 9 colors by the collotype process) facsimile plates, reproduced from Audubon's Birds of America, was issued in 1972 by Herbert Lang et Cie. AG, the antiquarian bookdealers and publishers, of Bern, Switzerland. Each 90-page, half linen, slipcased volume was numbered and specially bound to permit removal of the individual plates. Included, in addition to the ao reproductions, were 4 pages of titles, 6 pages of introduction, and 40 interleaved pages of explanatory text, in German and English. The price per copy was $385.
MISCELLANEOUS
Other reproductions in the author's possession include the following prints:
Ruffed Grouse, Tetrao umbellus, Linn. This print is erroneously identified in the upper right corner as "Plate XII" (but actually should be P1.4r) and in the upper left corner is labeled "Deluxe Edition." The drawing is 13 1/2 by 18 1/2 inches, printed on a sheet 18 9/16 by 23 7/8 inches. The credit line indicates that it was published by J. B. Fisher Co., New York, N.Y., "A Genuine Craft Print."

Three prints, each 19 7/16 by 16 inches, as follows: Plate 12, Baltimore Oriole; Plate 67, Florida Jay; and Plate 205, Summer or Wood Duck. At the bottom of each print is the statement, "Original, courtesy of Harry Shaw Newman, The Old Print Shop, New York, N.Y."

Boat-tailed Grackle, Quiscalus major, Vieill. Plate 187. This 21 7/8 by 18-inch reproduction was issued "By A. Inc. 1937, Engraved, Printed and Colored by A.P.P. Co., Inc., N.Y. Endorsed by the National Association of Audubon Societies," according to the statement on the print.

Red-shouldered Hawk, plate 56. This reproduction is 23 j by 16j inches and, according to the statement on the verso, was "Printed in Switzerland. Edita Lausanne."

Summer Red-bird. The size of this reproduction is 2o by 15 V, inches. The credit line in the lower left corner attributes this to "Penn Prints, New York." In the upper left corner, the plate is incorrectly identified as No. 42 and in the upper right corner as Plate 208 (should be No. 9, p1.42). No additional information is available.

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COLOR SLIDES
NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY
In 196i the National Audubon Society, with the cooperation of the National Gallery of Art, offered five sets of ten slides each of the Birds of America. Each 2-by-2-inch slide was from an original photograph taken with a special camera produced by Eastman Kodak Company for the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. The gallery had permitted the National Audubon Society to make 400 copies each of 50 selected prints of Audubon's Double Elephant folio edition of the Birds of America, of which the gallery possesses the only original, unbound copy in the United States. The cost of the sets to purchasers was: 1 set, $5; 3 sets, $14.50; 5 sets, $23.50. The sets consisted of the following prints:
Set 1 Original Plate Nos.
1. Hooping Crane 226
2. Yellow-breasted Chat 137
3. Mallard Duck 221
4. Great Horned Owl 61
5. Passenger Pigeon 62
6. Carolina Pigeon or Turtle Dove 17
7. Meadow Lark 36
8. Black Skimmer or Shearwater 323
9. Belted Kingfisher 77
10. American Magpie 357

Set 2
1. Roseate Spoonbill 321
2. Summer Red Bird 44
3. Canvas-backed Duck 301
4. Fish Hawk 81
5. Carolina Parrot 26
6. Cedar Bird 43
7. Cat Bird 128
8. Yellow Shank (Lesser Yellowlegs) 288
9. Florida Jay 87
10. Barn Swallow 173

Set 3
1. American Flamingo 431
2. Blue jay 102
3. Summer Duck 206
4. Swallow-tailed Hawk (Kite) 72
5. Ivory-billed Woodpecker 66
6. Gold-winged Woodpecker (Flicker) 37
7. Black Yellow Warbler (Magnolia Warbler) 123
8. Roseate Tern 240
9. Fish Crow 146
10. American White Pelican 311

Set 4
1. Snowy Heron or White Egret 242
2. Rose-breasted Grosbeak 127
3. Hooded Merganser 232
4. Mottled Owl (Screech Owl) 97
5. Trumpeter Swan 406
6. House Wren 83
7. White-breasted Black-capped Nuthatch 152
8. Great Northern Diver or Loon 306
9. Pileated Woodpecker 111
10. Great American Cock (Wild Turkey) 1

Set 5
1. Louisiana Heron 217
2. Baltimore Oriole 12
3. Goosander (American Merganser) 331
4. Broad-winged Hawk 91
5. Long-billed Curlew 231
6. Yellow-billed Cuckoo 2
7. White-crowned Sparrow 114
8. Black-bellied Darter (Water Turkey) 30
9. Whip-poor-will 82
10. Glossy Ibis 387