DECORATIVE DECOY CARVER'S ULTIMATE PAINTING AND PATTERN PORTFOLIO: SERIES ONE, DABBLING AND WHISTLING DUCKS. By Bruce Burk.

# (1986) 2004 1st edition thus*. Spiral-bound 4to (236 x 290mm). Ppvi,147,ad. Colour photographs, colour painting patterns and b/w lines plans of ducks, bibliography, paint chart end-papers. Laminated boards, issued with dust wrapper.

# A really useful book for help in making realistic carved models. Lots of step by step photographs, patterns, painting patterns and an extensive, detailed text. Well worth the modest investment. Includes the Common Mallard, Black Duck, Northern Pintail, Carolina Wood Duck, American Wigeon, Green-winged Teal, Blue-winged Teal, Northern Cinnamon Teal, Gadwall, Northern Shoveler, Fulvous Whistling Duck and Black-Bellied Whistling Duck. *"The Fox Chapel Publishing edition is a completely revised and updated version of Bruce Burk's Decorative Decoy Designs, Volume 1, Dabbling and Whistling Ducks, first published in 1986 by Stackpole Books. This new edition includes digitally rescanned images and minor text corrections. The original 18"x12" wirebound, softcover format has been changed to feature 8.5"x11" pages bound by a concealed spiral binding in a hardcover case. New photographs showing current examples of decorative decoys have been added."