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Lot 526

GRAY (JOHN EDWARD)]
Gleanings from the Menagerie and Aviary at Knowsley Hall. Hoofed Quadrupeds, FIRST EDITON, [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. Hoofed Quadrupeds, FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO APPROXIMATELY 100 COPIES, 61 lithographed plates (of 62) by and after Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, 52 printed in colours or hand-coloured, 5 shaved touching caption, a few working loose, blindstamp on title and each plate, publisher's cloth, gilt lettered "Knowsley Hall" on upper cover, lower cover and spine (with some loss) detached [Nissen ZBI 1691], folio (556 x 368mm.), Knowsley, [Printed for Private Distribution], 1850

Footnotes

The work was issued as a companion volume to Gray's earlier work on the menagerie, published in 1846 [see previous lot]. It is devoted to Antelope and Deer, Llamas and their relatives, Zebras, Quaggas and various horse family half-breeds. The plates are all by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins (1807-1894), an artist and sculptor who specialised in natural history subjects, contributing 49 plates to Charles Darwin's The Zoology of the Voyage of HMS Beagle, and later modelling life-sized images of dinosaurs for exhibition at Crystal Palace, and Central Park in New York. The plates are accompanied by Lord Derby's notes on their habits, and by a description of the specimens of the various genera.

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