Studies and sketches of a bird painter.

Melbourne: Lansdowne Editions, 1981.
Small folio, 260 pp. colour plates, text illustrations. Publisher's full grey calf and Solander box, edition limited to 500 copies, numbered and signed by the artist, some marks to box otherwise a fine copy.

Raymond Harris-Ching is one of the great modern wildlife artists and Studies and Sketches is one of his best books. Originally born in New Zealand he moved to England after his first highly successful Wellington exhibition and has remained there, with a few minor interludes elsewhere, ever since.