MARC Record view

001 $ 09/2712
003 $ UK-LoRAA
005 $ 20240221175659.7
041 0 # $a eng
044 # # $a uk
100 1 # $a Bennett, Edward Turner
245 1 0 $a The Tower menagerie : comprising the natural history of the animals contained in that establishment; with anecdotes of their characters and history / $c illustrated by portraits of each, taken from life, by William Harvey ; and engraved on wood by Branston and Wright
260 # # $a London $b Printed for Robert Jennings, Poultry ; and sold by W.F. Wakeman, Dublin $c MDCCCXXIX
300 # # $a xviii, 241 pages, 1 unnumbered page : $b illustrations $c 23 cm.
500 # # $a The printer is named on the verso of the title page and verso of page 241: `Chiswick: Printed by Charles Whittingham, College House.'
500 # # $a Title vignette.
500 # # $a 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.
561 # # $a The front pastedown carries the armorial bookplate of Thomas Chalk, with the Latin motto: `Semel et Semper’.
653 # # $a Illustrated books
653 # # $a Wood-engravings
653 # # $a Animals
700 1 # $a Harvey, William $e source artist $e illustrator
700 1 # $a Branston, Robert Edward $e wood-engraver
700 1 # $a Wright, John $e wood-engraver
700 1 # $a Wakeman, William Frederick $e bookseller
700 1 # $a Whittingham, Charles $e printer
710 2 # $a Robert Jennings & Co. $e publisher