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GRAY, John Edward (1800-1875). Gleanings from the Menagerie and Aviary at Knowsley Hall. Hoofed Quadrupeds. Knowsley: printed by Richard & John E. Taylor for private distribution, 1850.
2o (555 x 370 mm). 62 lithographed plates by and after Waterhouse Hawkins, 17 colored or printed in colors "under his superintendence," printed by M'Lean & Co. or Hullmandel & Walton. (Some spotting throughout.) Original green cloth, gilt-lettered on front cover (rebacked, endpapers renewed). Provenance: Mr. Fernwick (presentation inscription from the Earl of Derby).
RARE, PROBABLY ONE OF NO MORE THAN 100 COPIES. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED on the title-page: "Mr. Fernwick from the Earl of Derby." Hawkins'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 work was edited by Gray, who provided the scientifically correct descriptions of the specimens, whilst the notes on their habits were by Lord Derby. The work was issued as a companion volume to Gray's earlier work on the birds in the menagerie, published in 1846, with 17 plates after Edward Lear. The present work includes 51 plates of Antelope and Deer, 4 of Llamas and their relatives and 7 of Zebras, Quaggas and various horse family half-breeds. BM(NH) II,p.713; see Nissen ZBI 1691.
2o (555 x 370 mm). 62 lithographed plates by and after Waterhouse Hawkins, 17 colored or printed in colors "under his superintendence," printed by M'Lean & Co. or Hullmandel & Walton. (Some spotting throughout.) Original green cloth, gilt-lettered on front cover (rebacked, endpapers renewed). Provenance: Mr. Fernwick (presentation inscription from the Earl of Derby).
RARE, PROBABLY ONE OF NO MORE THAN 100 COPIES. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED on the title-page: "Mr. Fernwick from the Earl of Derby." Hawkins'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 work was edited by Gray, who provided the scientifically correct descriptions of the specimens, whilst the notes on their habits were by Lord Derby. The work was issued as a companion volume to Gray's earlier work on the birds in the menagerie, published in 1846, with 17 plates after Edward Lear. The present work includes 51 plates of Antelope and Deer, 4 of Llamas and their relatives and 7 of Zebras, Quaggas and various horse family half-breeds. BM(NH) II,p.713; see Nissen ZBI 1691.