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Hardcover The Georgian Menagerie: Exotic Animals in Eighteenth-Century London Book

ISBN: 1784530840

ISBN13: 9781784530846

The Georgian Menagerie: Exotic Animals in Eighteenth-Century London

In the eighteenth century, it would not have been impossible to encounter an elephant or a kangaroo making its way down the Strand, heading towards the menagerie of Mr. Pidcock at the Exeter Change. Pidcock's was just one of a number of commercial menagerists who plied their trade in London in this period the predecessors to the zoological societies of the Victorian era. As the British Empire expanded and seaborne trade flooded into London's ports,...

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