Wild animal skins in Victorian Britain : zoos, collections, portraits, and maps / Ann C. Colley, State University College of New York at Buffalo, USA.

Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT, USA : Ashgate Publishing Limited, [2014]

xii, 206 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-193) and index.

Industry, empire, portraiture, and skin at the Belle Vue Zoo, Manchester -- A skin disorder -- Stuff and nonsense : skin and Victorian animal portraiture -- Touch : reaching through the bars -- Wild skins and mapping the Victorian landscape.