Field Notes Birds and Trees of North America (Pack B)

Rex Brasher’s artistic talent, love of nature, technical expertise, and persistence offer an inspiring story that should be better known by anyone with an interest in birds, nature, or art. From a young age, Brasher committed to visiting all of America’s bird species in their natural habitats. He spent a lifetime traveling, collecting notes and drawings, writing personal, insight descriptions, and painting and re-painting birds.

By the late 1920s, Brasher — nearly 60 years old — was finally satisfied with his paintings, and set out to publish a collection of his work. Unhappy with colour printing options at the time, Brasher had the paintings reproduced in black-and white, then hand-coloured all 87,000 pages of the nearly 100 sets of twelve volumes of The Birds and Trees of North America, which he completed in 1932.

Field Notes have carefully reproduced six of Brasher's colourful illustrations on two 3-Packs of Field Notes Ruled Memo Books. Covers are a  lovely felt-textured 100#C Mohawk Via “Pure White,” bound by three stainless steel staples. The bodies are 60#T Domtar Lynx Opaque Ultra, ruled with pale gray lines.

“Pack B” features:
Pine Grosbeak (Oldfield Pine)
1911, Volume 9, Plate 515

Baltimore Oriole (Crabapple)
1912, Volume 8, Plate 507

Sulphurbelly Flycatcher (Ironwood)
1911, Volume 7, Plate 451