CHRISTINE E. JACKSON F. L. S.
Author and biographer
BRITISH NAMES OF BIRDS
H. F. & G. Witherby Ltd, 1968, with 4840 vernacular bird names.
BIRD ILLUSTRATORS
H. F. & G. Witherby Ltd, 1975
The first book published on bird illustration.
COLLECTING BIRD STAMPS
H. F. & G. Witherby Ltd, 1977. Awarded the bronze medal at the British Philatelic Society Exhibition in 1978.
WOOD ENGRAVINGS OF BIRDS
H. F. & G. Witherby, 1978
Eminent wood engravers from Thomas Bewick to C. F. Tunicliffe
BIRD ETCHINGS
Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York 1985
Surveys the bird artists painting and etching their own plates for two hundred years
PRIDEAUX JOHN SELBY
Spredden Press, Northumberland 1992
The ornithologist who made life size etchings of British birds for his Illustrations of British Ornithology.
GREAT BIRD PAINTINGS OF THE WORLD
Volume 1: The Old Masters
Antique Collectors’ Club, 1993. 54 paintings, sourced in museums, art galleries and private collections in Britain and Europe, illustrated and discussed for their significance in the beginnings of bird art.
BIRD PAINTINGS
The Eighteenth Century
Antique Collectors’ Club, 1994. Illustrations by the major artists from the golden age of bird paintings.
SARAH STONE
Natural Curiosities from the New Worlds
Merrell Holberton and the Natural History Museum, London,1998
Sarah Stone worked mainly in the Lever Museum, drawing artefacts and specimens including many brought home by Cook from his first voyage.
DICTIONARY OF BIRD ARTISTS OF THE WORLD
Antique Collectors’ Club, 1999
Over 4,000 entries for artists (deceased by 1999) who created images of birds in all media, with a survey of the history of bird art for each country.
SIR WILLIAM JARDINE
Leicester University Press, 2001.
A biography of Scotlands’ foremost naturalist of the 19th century. He was a prolific author and had great influence sharing his wide knowledge with humour and generosity.
PEACOCK
Reaktion Books Ltd, 2006, in the Animal series.
Blue, Green and Congo peafowls’ natural and unnatural histories, artefacts and architecture. With translations in Arabic and Chinese.
FISH IN ART
Reaktion books Ltd, 2012
A first historical outline of the depiction of fish from 2000 BC to the present with an original and unique perspective, with 195 illustrations (160 in colour).
JOHN JAMES LAFOREST AUDUBON
An English perspective
Privately published 2013 with new information about his English wife and the many people whom he met while in England getting his The Birds of America printed.
MENAGERIES IN BRITAIN
1100 - 2000
Ray Society, 2014.
From the time when only kings could buy and house menageries, then travelling and commercial menageries, private menageries and aviaries, supplied by dealers and finally 20th century opportunities, wild animals in Britain have fascinated the British public.
A NEWSWORTHY NATURALIST
THE LIFE OF WILLIAM YARRELL
John Beaufoy Publishing in association with the British Ornithologists’ Club, 2021.
A naturalist of great stature in London with a bookselling and newsagency, with huge influence in the London natural history societies; the namer of Bewick’s Swan and author of standard Histories of British Birds and History of British Fishes with wood engravings published in the 1830s.