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GRAY (JOHN EDWARD)]
Gleanings from the Menagerie and Aviary at Knowsley Hall, FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO APPROXIMATELY 100 COPIES

22 November 2011, 10:30 GMT
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GRAY (JOHN EDWARD)]

Gleanings from the Menagerie and Aviary at Knowsley Hall, FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO APPROXIMATELY 100 COPIES, 17 hand-coloured lithographed plates after Edward Lear, by J.W. Moore and D.W. Mitchell (one), "coloured by Mr. Bayfield", blindstamp in margin of each plate, publisher's green cloth, gilt lettered "Knowsley Hall" on upper cover [Nissen ZBI 1691, IVB 392; Fine Bird Books, p.79; Anker 189; Wood, p.368; Zimmer, p.273], folio (556 x 376mm.), Knowsley, [Printed for Private Distribution], 1846

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Having been commissioned by Edward Smith Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby to record animals from his menagerie, Edward Lear spent long periods between 1831 and 1837 at Knowsley Hall, making drawings and watercolours of both animals and birds. The largest private zoological gardens in England, Knowsley occupied nearly 170 acres, with upwards of 1250 birds and 340 mammals at the time of the Earl's death. The seventeen plates in this volume comprise birds (9), mammals (7) and a turtle. See illustration overleaf.

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