Brief rant on book-breaking: The above print is a chrome lithograph single print removed from an 1880 Cassell's Standard Book of Poultry. I don't know what the whole book is worth exactly, often times people will get them for around a hundred dollars. Sometimes people will remove the individual prints and sell them for around a hundred dollars a print. But it ruins the book. I won't buy individual prints like this, especially when there are modern reproduction lithos that you can purchase in any size for wall art that are inexpensive.
So that got me to thinking, (a dangerous endeavor in and of itself), about these illustrations of the Standard. So, I looked up a modern APA for Polish and starting on page 152, the black and white illustration was no better. It was about the same and definitely taken from an older plate. I have always thought that most of the Standard illustrations are a little exaggerated and overwrought.
That's a lot of birds if you have a few of each breed.
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