The Pictorial Museum of Animated Nature

MASSIVE 2-VOLUME VICTORIAN ATLAS OF THOUSANDS OF WOOD ENGRAVINGS OF WILD AND DOMESTIC ANIMALS--IN ORIGINAL BINDING. Two folio volumes 14 inches tall, 3/4 green leather binding, marbled boards, spine with raised bands, gilt red and black leather labels, bookplate of Robert L. Chevalier to front paste-downs, Vol. I, color frontispiece, title page, contents, engraved title page, 400 pp; Vol. II, 432 pp; thousands of fine wood engravings and accompanying text. Abrasions top and bottom of spine leather, wear to corners, light foxing to first and last pages, very good in custom archival mylar covers. CHARLES KNIGHT (1791-1873) was an English publisher, editor and author. The son of a bookseller and printer at Windsor, he was apprenticed to his father. In 1823, in conjunction with friends he had made as publisher (1820-1821) of The Etonian, he started Knight's Quarterly Magazine. In 1827 Knight was forced to give up publishing, and became the superintendent of the publications of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, for which he projected and edited The British Almanack and Companion, begun in 1828. In 1829 he resumed business on his own account with the publication of The Library of Entertaining Knowledge, writing several volumes of the series himself. In 1832 and 1833 he started The Penny Magazine and The Penny Cyclopaedia. Besides many illustrated editions of standard works, including in 1842 an edition of the works of William Shakespeare entitled The Pictorial Shakspeare, which had appeared in parts (1838-1841), Knight published a variety of illustrated works, including The Pictorial Museum of Animated Nature ca. 1844 (offered here). In 1864 he withdrew from the business of publishing, but he continued to write nearly to the close of his long life, authoring The Shadows of the Old Booksellers (1865), an autobiography under the title Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century (2 vols., 1864-1865).

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Publisher: Charles Knight and Co.

Year: ca. 1844

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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