I purchased about 6 of these Kirby books with ready to frame art. This review applies to every single one of them regardless of the image topic:
They are printed on very thin, cheap paper. Approximately the equivalent of 20lb copy paper quality. I use 24lb copy paper in my home printer and it's heavier than these prints.
The printing itself is not bad, but the formatting of the book before printing was sloppy and the editor and printing house should be called out on this.
Each page has a black line presumably to be used as a guide to trim the page out of the book. The problem is the print is not centered between the black line and the outer edge of the book, so if using the line as a cutting guide you end up with a picture that is not centered in the final cut sheet of paper. There's really no excuse for this. The book is a standard size and it would not have been difficult to center the print correctly.
The books themselves were not cut squarely on the bottom edge, so if you're using a table top paper cutter to trim down the page, one long edge will be crooked.
Many of the images were cropped in a ridiculous way. It is the worst in volume 1 and 2 of the Parrots book. At least half the bird prints are cropped so the top of the birds head is all the way up at the top of the colored background of the print. If you were to mat and frame these they would look like they were matted incorrectly and not centered in the mat because there would be significantly more blank space below the bird. This cannot be corrected because there isn't enough room at the top to drop the bird lower in the mat. The only solution is to frame them in a smaller opening mat which would have to be custom made or risk cutting off the tail of the bird below the mat opening.
The printed portion of the page is 7x9 inches which is not a standard frame size or mat opening size, therefore you will have to use 8x10 opening mats or have custom mats made that have 7x9 openings. In a book that's 9x12, why on earth couldn't you simply format the book to print the images to fit industry standard mats or frames?
In the flower books, half the images have no names of the flowers printed on the front side so you have no idea what they are, and there is no index or table of contents in the book to refer to.
The alignment and page size issues will mean you will spend A LOT of time trying to trim these all the same to fit. To make it worse each book is different. You will need to trim the parrot pages differently from the fruit pages, and those differently from the roses. The time it took to cut and trim these was absolutely not worth the low price, and all the custom mats and/or frames will cost 100x the price of these books. Do yourself a favor and look for ready to frame prints that are already printed separately and of a standard size.
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