GYRFALCON. By Emma Ford.

1999 1st edition. Oblong folio (320 x 278mm). Pp191. Colour plates by Antony Rhodes, Andrew Ellis and others, colour photographs and illustrations throughout. Black cloth, spine titled in gilt, silk marker.

A handsome celebration of the gyr, beautifully illustrated by two of Britain's most talented wildlife artists, as well as with reproductions of many older works by Wolf, Lodge, Thorburn and others. Chapters on gyrfalcons in American falconry and on captive breeding of gyrfalcons by Robert Berry, and on adaptation for survival in Arctic regions by Tom Cade.