Sydney: CSIRO Publishing, 2015. Quarto, oblong format, colour illustrations, dustwrapper.

FIRST PRINTING - MOST COPIES WERE DESTROYED. Unfortunately the first printing of PIGEONS AND DOVES was plagued with printing and binding issues which seriously impacted the production quality of the book. The publisher and printer correctly decided to reprint and make a number of changes - the paper stock changed, a heavier paper used and the binding better reinforced.

In 1973 Joseph Forshaw and William Cooper published to great aclaim their first collaboration, Parrots of the World (Lansdowne 1973). This was the start of the most successful author/artist partnership for twentieth century bird books and all their books are highly sought after in the secondary market. Pigeons and Doves is Forshaw and Cooper's final project and the illustrations are some of William Cooper's best. Thirty-one species of pigeons and doves found in Australia are illustrated with a full page plate and the book is illustrated throughout with study sketches and smaller coloured drawings.