Lioness and cubs. Detail of coloured engraving from the 1866 edition of Cassell’s Popular Natural History, published by Cassell, Petter and Galpin.

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Coloured engraving from the 1866 edition of Cassell’s Popular Natural History, published by Cassell, Petter and Galpin, based at Belle Sauvage Works, Ludgate Hill, London, EC. In 1851, newspaper publisher John Cassell rented out part of La Belle Sauvage Inn, a playhouse in Elizabethan times, and remodelled it to print books and magazines. Cassell’s Popular Natural History was published in four volumes over several decades from the mid-1800s to early 1900s: volumes 1 and 2, Mammalia volume 3, Birds volume 4, Reptiles The mammals were categorised as: four-handed animals wing-handed animals insect-eating animals rodents or gnawing animals flesh-eating animals.

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Size: 9579px × 6386px
Location: England
Photo credit: © Terence Kerr / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No

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