Missing colour plates from "Raptors of the World" 2001, by James Ferguson-Lees and David Christie. (2 Viewers)

[Zoologist from the Med.]

Hi. I just bought myself a copy of Helm ID guide's "Raptors of the World" which was published in 2001 by authors James Ferguson-Lees and David A. Christie, and whilst I was skimming over the colour plates, I couldn't help but notice that plates 90 and 91 are exactly the same......the Pygmy falcon of Africa seems to not be illustrated anywhere in this book and instead both plates of individual numbers have illustrated the same species of forest falcons and the spot-winged falconet on both pages. Does anyone here own a copy of this book and kindly explain (if anyone knows why) the book had mentioned pygmy falcon and two other forest falcons in plate 90, only for the birds not being there. Thank you!.

 

[THE_FERN]

Good spot. I'd never noticed.

 

[Butty]

My PDF of it is fine - it doesn't have a date/edn/print no. on it unfortunately.
I can't check my printed book at present - but now I'm left wondering if this is why I got it cheap 🤔👎🏼
It's a weird error - I don't see any point in the DTP > imposition > printing > binding process where it could easily have happened and have affected just a single page. Sounds like an inadvertent duplication/overwriting of a page when still being DTP'd.

 

[THE_FERN]

[PDF version of Birds of Peru was missing a plate...]

 

[mjh73]

I have the Princeton version of the same book and seems complete with African Pygmy Falcon on Plate 97

 

[THE_FERN]

Don't suppose anyone would be kind enough to scan and post the plate here?

 

[Zoologist from the Med.]

Don't suppose anyone would be kind enough to scan and post the plate here?

I certainly don't have it in my copy. I even thought that I must be going crazy or something when I saw two plates exactly the same😅. Now I'm glad I'm not the only one with this book's error.....

 

[Zoologist from the Med.]

My PDF of it is fine - it doesn't have a date/edn/print no. on it unfortunately.
I can't check my printed book at present - but now I'm left wondering if this is why I got it cheap 🤔👎🏼
It's a weird error - I don't see any point in the DTP > imposition > printing > binding process where it could easily have happened and have affected just a single page. Sounds like an inadvertent duplication/overwriting of a page when still being DTP'd.

In simpler terms, you mean, an error when it was being processed for publishing or a mistake made by the illustrators??

 

[Butty]

or a mistake made by the illustrators?

I don't understand your question. How could it possibly be a mistaken act by the illustrator to paint and submit two identical plates?

 

[Zoologist from the Med.]

I don't understand your question. How could it possibly be a mistaken act by the illustrator to paint and submit two identical plates?

You're right. I meant to imply that if my copy has two identical plates, what do you think could've been the problem?

 

[Andy Adcock]

Don't suppose anyone would be kind enough to scan and post the plate here?

Mine is ok, sorry no scanner.

 

[Zoologist from the Med.]

Mine is ok, sorry no scanner.

What is your copy's ISBN?

 

[Swissboy]

What is your copy's ISBN?

Mine is complete. it is a Helm version with ISBN 0-7136-8026-1 .
Scan attached

 

[Andy Adcock]

What is your copy's ISBN?

0-7136-8026-1

 

[Frank van Drogen]

Mine is complete. it is a Helm version with ISBN 0-7136-8026-1 .
Scan attached

Maybe complete, but printed upside down!

 

[Swissboy]

Mine is complete. it is a Helm version with ISBN 0-7136-8026-1 .
Scan attached

Hopefully more suitable version of same scan.

 

[dantheman]

Maybe complete, but printed upside down!

I was going to say the same, but resisted the urge ... ;-)

 

[Frank van Drogen]

I was going to say the same, but resisted the urge ... ;-)

I just couldn't help myself.

 

[Andy Adcock]

Hopefully more suitable version of same scan.

When I saw the previous version, before I opened it fully, I thought 'oh, they updated the illustrations'...........

 

[Zoologist from the Med.]

Mine is complete. it is a Helm version with ISBN 0-7136-8026-1 .
Scan attached

My copy's ISBN is 978-0--7136-8026-3. Could it be that yours is an updated/ammended version? Or could it be that there where other versions of this title from Helm and some where simply flukes of the original or something??? Who knows.

0-7136-8026-1