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Acknowledgements

Thanks so far to the ongoing generosity of fellow enthusiasts and advisors who have given me their valuable time, advice or permission to use some of their images :

Robbie Bright at Tennants Auctioneers
Rob Chinnery at Kendall House Antiques
Bob Church
Jeffrey Dent
Martin Dunne
Simon Rumble The British Taxidermy FB Group
Peter Southon
Darren Stone Taxidermy4Cash
Harry at Taxidermyjungle.co.uk

Bibliography

A non-exhaustive list of reference books from my own library…

A History of Taxidermy: Art, Science and Bad Taste

Pat Morris.

ISBN 956487319

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Walter Potter's Curious World of Taxidermy

Dr. Pat Morris.

ISBN 1472129040

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Under Glass, A Victorian Obsession

John Whitenight

ISBN-10  0764344072

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A History of British Taxidermy.

Christopher Frost, The Enchanted Aviary

ISBN: 951226304

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The Ogilvie Bird Collection

Christopher Frost

ISBN: 09512263-2-0

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A Cabinet of Curiosities

Massimo Listri

Published by Taschen

Taxidermy and the Country House: Where natural history meets social history

P.A. Morris.

ISBN 9781739716110

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The Great Auk.

Errol Fuller

ISBN: 1593730039

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Birds of America

John James Audubon

ISBN 9780565093396

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The Echalaz Collection

E.T. Echalaz

ISBN: 1334699259

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The History of Taxidermy, Art Science & Bad Taste

P.A. Morris

ISBN: 956487319

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Voodoo Salon

Errol Fuller

ISBN: 9780953355341

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Edward Gerrard & Sons: A Taxidermy Memoir

P.A. Morris.

ISBN 954559614

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Rowland Ward: Taxidermist to the World

P.A. Morris

ISBN: 954559606

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Taxidermy

Alexis Turner

ISBN 9780500516706

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Hutchings, The Aberystwyth Taxidermists 1860-1942

Pat Morris & Michael Freeman

ISBN: 954559657

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The Victorian Taxidermy Co Ltd: Volume 1 Catalogue

Robert Chinnery

ISBN: n/a

A collectors item, no longer in print

The Ark in the Park: The Zoo in the nineteenth century

Wilfrid Blunt

ISBN: 9780241893319

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Taxidermy Art: A Rogue's guide

Robert Marbury

ISBN: 9781579655587

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A Record of Spicers

Robert Chinnery

ISBN: 0954130200

A collectors item, no longer in print, but look on WorldCat.org

The New Naturalists

Claire Bingham

ISBN 978050002400-3

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Naturalists in Paradise

John Hemming

ISBN: 978050025210-9

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Menageries in Britain 1100-2000

Christine E. Jackson

ISBN 978-0903874458

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Cabinets of Curiosities

Patrick Mauries

ISBN: 978050002288-7

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Rowland Ward: A Naturalists Life Study

Rowland Ward

ISBN: 09584590-1-0

A collectors item, no longer in print

Life in the English Country House : A Social and Architectural History

Marc Girouard

ISBN: 978-0300058703

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James Sheals, Naturalist & Taxidermist: The Story of Victorian & Edwardian Taxidermy

McKee Marshall

ISBN n/a

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London Zoo (from old photographs) 1852-1914

John Edwards

ISBN: 0952709902

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Foxes, Fox Hounds and Fox Hunting

Richard Clapham

ISBN n/a

Out of Print

A zoo on wheels
Bostock and Wombwell's Menagerie

Dr. J.L. Middlemiss

ISBN: 1870253108

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Circus Parade

John S Clarke

ISBN: 9781905217922

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