Gray (John Edward) Gleanings from the Knowsley Menagerie and Aviary at Knowsley Hall: Hoofed Quadrupeds, part II only, first edition, one of c.100 copies privately printed for the author, 62 lithographed plates by and after Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, 18 colour-printed or hand-coloured, occasional light spotting, 6 sheets with fine albeit large line of surface loss running across the sheets from possible old adhesive which has removed layer of paper, some damp staining, plate 19 torn and repaired, modern morocco, gilt, light scuff marks to upper cover, slip-case, folio, [Nissen ZBI 1691], Richard and John E. Taylor, 1850.

⁂ The work was issued as a companion volume to Gray's earlier work on the menagerie, published in 1846, which was devoted to Antelope and Deer, Llamas and their relatives, Zebras, Quaggas and various horse family half-breeds. Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins (1807-1894), was an artist and sculptor specialising in natural history subjects, who contributed 49 plates to Charles Darwin's The Zoology of the Voyage of HMS Beagle, and later modelled life-sized images of dinosaurs for exhibition at Crystal Palace, and Central Park in New York.