Daniel Giraud Elliot’s Monograph of the Phasanidae or Family of Pheasants
Recent documentary evidence suggests that the lithographic stones for the 79 plates by Smit and Keulemans after Joseph Wolf that illustrate Daniel Giraud Elliot’s Monograph of the Phasanidae or Family of Pheasants were destroyed after only 150 copies had been taken.
This fact can only further enhance the commercial standing of what has long been regarded as one of …