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JOHN EDWARD GRAY (1800-1875)
Gleanings from the Menagerie and Aviary at Knowsley Hall. Knowsley: printed for private distribution, 1846. 2 (555 x 378mm). 17 FINE HAND-COLOURED LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES AFTER LEAR, by D.W.Mitchell and J.W.Moore, coloured by Bayfield. (Appreciable spotting to plate 9, occasional light marginal fingering.) Original green cloth, titled in gilt on upper cover "Knowsley Menagerie" (damp stains to covers, neat repairs to spine, and inner hinges), later slip-case. Provenance: Sarah Hornby (Dalton Hall, Westmoreland, inscription dated 1846, noting the gift of the book from the Earl of Derby, bookplate); Mildred Bliss (Dumbarton Oaks bookplate).
AN EXCELLENT COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION. RARE, PROBABLY ONE OF 100 COPIES. Lear's illustrations for this fine work were commissioned by Edward Smith Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby as a selective record of his menagerie at Knowsley. It was the largest private zoo in England, covering 170 acres and containing 1,272 birds and 345 mammals at the time of Lord Derby's death in 1851. The present copy has the additional interest of having been presented by the Earl of Derby to the wife of his nephew Edmund Hornby. The commission allowed Lear to draw from life, as with his other great natural history work (Family of Psittacidae, or Parrots London: 1830-1832). Lear's stay at Knowsley, is also well known for a period he was later to say was the happiest time of his life the drawings and rhymes, produced for the Stanley children, which were later to become his "Nonsense Books". Anker 189; Fine Bird Books p.79; Nissen IVB 392; Wood p.368; Zimmer p.273.
Gleanings from the Menagerie and Aviary at Knowsley Hall. Knowsley: printed for private distribution, 1846. 2 (555 x 378mm). 17 FINE HAND-COLOURED LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES AFTER LEAR, by D.W.Mitchell and J.W.Moore, coloured by Bayfield. (Appreciable spotting to plate 9, occasional light marginal fingering.) Original green cloth, titled in gilt on upper cover "Knowsley Menagerie" (damp stains to covers, neat repairs to spine, and inner hinges), later slip-case. Provenance: Sarah Hornby (Dalton Hall, Westmoreland, inscription dated 1846, noting the gift of the book from the Earl of Derby, bookplate); Mildred Bliss (Dumbarton Oaks bookplate).
AN EXCELLENT COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION. RARE, PROBABLY ONE OF 100 COPIES. Lear's illustrations for this fine work were commissioned by Edward Smith Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby as a selective record of his menagerie at Knowsley. It was the largest private zoo in England, covering 170 acres and containing 1,272 birds and 345 mammals at the time of Lord Derby's death in 1851. The present copy has the additional interest of having been presented by the Earl of Derby to the wife of his nephew Edmund Hornby. The commission allowed Lear to draw from life, as with his other great natural history work (Family of Psittacidae, or Parrots London: 1830-1832). Lear's stay at Knowsley, is also well known for a period he was later to say was the happiest time of his life the drawings and rhymes, produced for the Stanley children, which were later to become his "Nonsense Books". Anker 189; Fine Bird Books p.79; Nissen IVB 392; Wood p.368; Zimmer p.273.