The Tower menagerie : comprising the natural history of the animals contained in that establishment; with anecdotes of their characters and history / illustrated by portraits of each, taken from life, by William Harvey ; and engraved on wood by Branston and Wright

Edward Turner Bennett

RA Collection: Book

Record number

09/2712

Author

Imprint

London: Printed for Robert Jennings, Poultry ; and sold by W.F. Wakeman, Dublin, MDCCCXXIX

Physical Description

xviii, 241 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations 23 cm.

General Note

The printer is named on the verso of the title page and verso of page 241: `Chiswick: Printed by Charles Whittingham, College House.'
Title vignette.
In 1831, the animals were moved to the menagerie of the Zoological Society of London (now London Zoo), established in the Regent’s Park, and four years later, the Tower menagerie was closed.

Provenance

The front pastedown carries the armorial bookplate of Thomas Chalk, with the Latin motto: `Semel et Semper’.

Subject

Illustrated books
Wood-engravings
Animals

Contributors

William Harvey, source artist, illustrator
Robert Edward Branston, wood-engraver
John Wright, wood-engraver
William Frederick Wakeman, bookseller
Charles Whittingham, printer
Robert Jennings & Co., publisher