Animal portraiture

Richard Lydekker and Wilhelm Kuhnert

Richard Lydekker pairs a naturalist's eye with a gallery of the world's animals. Each plate frames a single creature, the Manchurian tiger, the reindeer, the capercaillie, the roe-deer, and Lydekker tells its life in a page. Part art book, part field guide, wholly a pleasure. Turn the pages and meet the animals one portrait at a time.