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