… leather-bound volumes of the English, Latin and Italian classics, splendidly illustrated tomes of history and travel and books of engravings. Then, there was the host’s collection of painting and marbles, medals and antiquities to enjoy and …
Menageries
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… the exotic with discussions in newspapers, letters, diaries, trade cards, jokes, novels and natural history books which became the medium through which Georgians appropriated and tamed the exotic epitomised by roaring sounds …