Audubon's Birds of America: The Audubon Society Baby » (Revised Edition)

All of John James Audubon's brilliant bird engravings are graced by illuminating commentary by Roger Tory Peterson, one of America's best-known ornithologists, in this diminutive, yet lavish volume. 435 engravings. 900 illustrations, over 470 in full color.

Library Journal

In the review of the original volume, LJ 's reviewer called this ``the finest edition since the original double-elephant folio'' and recommended its purchase by ``all but the smallest libraries'' ( LJ 1/1/82). Since then, no other edition has appeared to alter those judgments. The revisions in this new version are minor: the text has been somewhat rewritten, mainly to reflect recent changes in bird names and classification, and some of the double-page plates of the original have been reduced to one page. At the price, libraries owning the original do not need to acquire this book, but libraries that missed the first edition will wish to consider this one--if budgets permit.-- Paul B. Cors, Univ. of Wyoming Lib., Laramie