Gleanings from the menagerie and aviary at Knowsley Hall
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1846
Place of publication: Knowsley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 14
Subjects: Birds; Pictorial works; Animals in art; Zoology; Ruminants; Menageries; History
Notes: "Printed for private distribution."

In the "Preface" signed by J.E. Gray, the plates are described as "selected from the series of drawings made by Mr. Edward Lear from the living animals in the Right Honourable the Earl of Derby's menagerie ... They have been lithographed ... by Mr. J.W. Moore, and coloured by Mr. Bayfield."

The text includes extracts from Lord Derby's notes.

Noakes, 11.

Field, pp. 119-120.

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