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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 :

A special mention to Tennants for photographs and copyright of Tennants is credited against each photo

Robbie Bright, Natural History Department Lead at Tennants Auctioneers
Rob Chinnery at Kendall House Antiques (previously The Victorian Taxidermy Company)
Bob Church, Collector
Jeffrey Dent, Collector and Authority on Henry Murray of Carnforth
Martin Dunne, Collector, Author and authority on historic taxidermy
Simon Rumble The British Taxidermy FB Group, Collector, Bird Enthusiast, Taxidermy Specialist
Peter Southon, Collector
Darren Stone Taxidermy4Cash, Website Creator, and Collector
Harry at Taxidermyjungle.co.uk, Taxidermy Specialist, Dealer and Collector

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TITLE AUTHOR FIRST PUBLISHED PUBLISHER
A Cabinet of Curiosities Massimo Listri 2022 Taschen
A History of British Taxidermy Christopher Frost 1987 C. Frost, UK
A History of Taxidermy: Art, Science and Bad Taste P.A. Morris 2010 MPM Publishing
A Record of Spicers Robert Chinnery 2001 Robert Chinnery
A Record of Spicers Robert Chinnery 2001 The Victorian Taxidermy Company, UK
A zoo on wheels: Bostock and Wombwell’s Menagerie Dr. J.L. Middlemiss 1987 Dalebrook Publications
Audubon: A Biography John Chancellor 1978 Chancellor Press
Beneath The Big Top: A social history of the circus in Britain Steve Ward 2014 Pen & Sword Books, Yorkshire
Billy Buttons: The Life and Times of Philip Astley Steve Ward 2018 Pen & Sword Books, Yorkshire
Cabinets of Curiosities Patrick Mauries 2019 Thames and Hudson
Circus Parade John S Clarke 1936 B.T. Batsford UK
Edward Gerrard & Sons: A Taxidermy Memoir P.A. Morris 2004 MPM Publishing
Exhibiting Animals in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Empathy, Education, Entertainment Helen Cowie 2014 Palgrave MacMillan, UK
Foxes, Fox Hounds and Fox Hunting Richard Clapham 1922 Heath Cranton Ltd UK
Hutchings, The Aberystwyth Taxidermists 1860-1942 Pat Morris & Michael Freeman 2007 MPM Publishing
James Sheals, Naturalist & Taxidermist: The Story of Victorian & Edwardian Taxidermy McKee Marshall 1983 Ulster Museum, Belfast
Life in the English Country House : A Social and Architectural History Marc Girouard 1994 Yale University Press
London Zoo (from old photographs) 1852-1914 John Edwards 1996 Books for Dillons Only
Menageries in Britain 1100-2000 Christine E. Jackson 2015 Ray Society Publications
Naturalists in Paradise John Hemming 2015 Thames and Hudson
Rowland Ward: A Naturalists Life Study Rowland Ward 1913 Rowland Ward, London
Rowland Ward: Taxidermist to the World P.A. Morris 2003 MPM Publishing
Taxidermy Alexis Turner 2013 Thames and Hudson
Taxidermy and the Country House: Where natural history meets social history P.A. Morris 2023 MPM Publishing
Taxidermy Art: A Rogue’s guide Robert Marbury 2014 Artisan
The Ark in the Park: The Zoo in the nineteenth century Wilfrid Blunt 1976 Hamish Hamilton
The Birds of America John James Audubon 1838 Havell
The Echalaz Collection E.T. Echalaz 1909 Roffey & Clark
The Great Auk Errol Fuller 2003 Bunker Hill Publishing, UK
The Heyday of Natural History: 1820-1870 Lynn Barber 1980 Jonathan Cape Ltd, London
The Hummingbird Vol 1 Adolphe Boucard 1891 Forgotten Books
The Kendal Museum Collection of Fine Art Taxidermy by H. Murray & Son Taylor, Dunne & Sage 2009 B.H.T.S. UK
The New Naturalists Claire Bingham 2022 Thames and Hudson
The Ogilvie Bird Collection Christopher Frost 1989 C. Frost, UK
The Rise and Fall of Horatio Bottomley Alan Hyman 1972 Cassell, UK
The Strand Magazine Edited by George Newnes 1896 Geo Newnes, London
The Victorian Taxidermy Co Ltd: Volume 1 Catalogue Robert Chinnery 1982 Robert Chinnery
The Wonders: Lifting the Curtain on the Freak Show, Circus and Victorian Age John Woolf 2019 Michael O’Mara Books, London
Under Glass, A Victorian Obsession John Whitenight 2013 Schiffer, USA
Victorian Taxidermy: Its History and Finest Exponents Christopher Frost 1981 C. Frost, UK
Voodoo Salon Errol Fuller 2014 Summers Place Auction, UK
Walter Potter’s Curious World of Taxidermy P.A. Morris & Joanna Ebenstein 2018 Constable