Audubon: Early Drawings

John James Audubon

Introduction by Richard Rhodes Scientific Commentary by Scott V. Edwards, Foreword by Leslie A. Morris

  • 2008 PINE (Printing Industries of New England) Pinnacle Award
  • Contents
  • History of the Harris Collection by Leslie A. Morris
  • The Sources of Audubon’s Art by Richard Rhodes
  • Audubon the Scientist by Scott V. Edwards
  • Early Drawings
  • Plates 1–68. American Species
  • Plates 69–111. European Species
  • Plates 112–116. Exotics and Mammals
  • Note on Order
  • References
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index
  • Cover: Audubon: Early Drawings
  • A photo of the author

Photo of Scott V. Edwards

Richard Rhodes is the award-winning author of numerous works of nonfiction, fiction, and biography, including John James Audubon: The Making of an American, and The Making of the Atomic Bomb, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.

Scott V. Edwards is Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Curator of Ornithology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University.

Leslie A. Morris is Curator of Modern Books and Manuscripts, Houghton Library, Harvard University.