Henry and Emma’s Visit to the Zoological Gardens, in the Regent’s Park.

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Interspersed with a familiar description of the manners and habits of the animals contained therein. Intended as a pleasing companion to juvenile visitors of this delightful place of recreation and fashionable resort. A new edition, with additions to the present season, by J. Bishop. With twelve illustrative coloured engravings. London : Dean and Munday, n.d. [but 1829 or 1830]. Second edition. Small octavo, original pictorial grey wrappers (cloth reinforcement to spine), title page with contemporary inscription, frontispiece with coloured engravings of the entrance to the Zoological Gardens and The Great White or Polar Bear, pp 36, 5 leaves each with a pair of hand coloured plates: the Bear Pit and the Brahmin Bull; the Sheep and Goat House and the Deer House; the Monkey Poles and the Otter Cavern and Pond; the Squirrel Cage and the Ostrich House; the Kanguroo Shed and the Indian Elephant; the gutters of a few leaves with paper reinforcements, internally clean and sound, with only a small amount of foxing, the colour illustrations still vibrant. According to Martin Zerling ( Zoos in Encyclopedia of children and childhood , vol. 3. New York : Macmillan, 2004, p 923), Henry and Emma s Visit was the very first guidebook to the Zoological Society of London s Zoological Gardens, which were opened to the public in Regent s Park in 1828. This publication addressed children as the main guests . The first edition, which presumably appeared in 1828, contained only 28 pages. The presen

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