She has included the illustrators and the craftsmen who created pictures for decorative purposes, such as prints in books and designs for postage stamps, tiles and ceramics. The sources for the examples of their work cited come from hundreds of books, museums, galleries and country houses open to the public. In addition, the world-wide sales in auction houses over a ten year period have been itemised." "The appendix provides a survey of each country's major bird artists and illustrators, as well as a list of artists, arranged by country to give a quick and useful reference to the names (including dates) of each nation's bird artists."--Jacket