![]() ![]() ![]() Given the excellent illustrations of birds (more of which to come), and the book’s absolutely unapologetic pushing of ‘birds are dinosaurs’, it’s a little peculiar to happen upon the above illustration of Avimimus. ![]() The Iberomesornis in particular is very lovely, with beautifully patterned, well-observed and very believable plumage. And wouldn’t you know, it part 2 – ‘Avi-Cha’ – opens with an excellent illustration of some flooftastic theropods that manages to be considerably better than a lot of the dreck that the poor, unfortunate children of today have foisted upon them in their dinosaur books. Starting with theropods because they are, quite obviously, the very best and sexiest dinosaurs that there ever were (and literally the only dinosaurs that are still around, so they win by default). In fact, there’s so much great work in here that I’ve decided to split it up over a couple of posts. But it’s a still a lovely little slice of long-lost late ’90s palaeoart goodness. And, well, I didn’t manage to acquire the whole set…just the one part. Of course, as soon as Steve mentioned it to me, I had to go and find a copy. Sadly, the encyclopedia – published by Marshall Cavendish in 1999 – was only ever sold to schools, which rather doomed it to obscurity. Steve contributed illustrations alongside LITC favourites Jim Robins and Steve Kirk among others, while the text was written by the likes of Paul Barrett, Tom Holtz and Mark Norell. When speaking to Steve White not so long ago – in relation to his work on Dinosaurs! – he told me about a multi-volume dinosaur encyclopedia he’d also played a part in back in the ’90s. ![]()
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