New York: John Lockwood, (ca. 1870-1871). In eight volumes. Royal 8vo (263 x 172 mm). Half-titles, 500 hand-colored lithographic plates. Publisher's brown morocco elaborately decorated in blind, spines gilt-lettered, edges gilt, turn-ins gilt (some rubbing and light wear to extremities, a few hinges just starting). Ayer/Zimmer pp. 25-26; Nissen IVB 52; Wood p. 209

Later edition. The Lockwood edition represents the last octavo edition printed from the original stones; they were destroyed in a fire in a Philadelphia warehouse, where they were stored, after 1870. Roe Lockwood & Son were publishers of the second folio edition of Audubon's Birds, which was not commercially successful due to the outbreak of the Civil War. Lockwood was the major creditor for the second edition, however, and gained the publication rights and lithographic stones for Audubon's works. It is from these stones that this octavo edition was printed.