Audubon, John James ; Richard Rhodes; Scott V Edwards; Leslie A Morris — Audubon : Early Drawings

Cambridge, MA, The Belknap Press of Harvard University, 2008. Hardcover. Tan cloth slipcase with color illustration tipped in, red clothbound boards with gold text on spine. 250 pp. Color illustrations. In these 116 portraits of species collected in America and Europe, we see Audubon inventing his ingenious methods of posing and depicting his subjects, and we trace his development into a scientist and an artist who could proudly sign his artworks "drawn from Nature. VG .