Happy New Year! We thought we would start off 2017 with a closer look at this 1759 edition of A Description of Three Hundred Animals. We were very excited to find this lovely book on a trip to the Museum of Childhood’s stores late last year. Alongside the descriptions it features some amazing illustrated animals.
![Animal Book](https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/migration/wp-content/uploads/sites/4480/2016/11/IMG_0418-e1478257514505-768x1024.jpg)
Many of the animals are quite charming, like this duck and his friends:
There are also some strange ones, such as this chameleon that looks like a monkey:
Even stranger is the elephant with human toes:
Our hands-down favourite, however, had to be ‘an unicorn’, which is featured right at the start of the book, alongside the rhinoceros!
We find a lot of nineteenth-century treasures in the stores, and have found some eighteenth-century gems in the past as well. However, this one will remain a firm favourite. Nothing beats finding an unicorn!
This post written by Danielle