{"id":197,"date":"2017-01-13T13:55:14","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T13:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/selcie\/?p=197"},"modified":"2017-01-24T12:48:37","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T12:48:37","slug":"lions-and-tigers-and-unicorns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/selcie\/2017\/01\/13\/lions-and-tigers-and-unicorns\/","title":{"rendered":"Lions and tigers and unicorns?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy New Year! We thought we would start off 2017 with a closer look at this 1759 edition of\u00a0A Description of Three Hundred Animals.\u00a0<\/em>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.<\/p>\n

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A Description of Three Hundred Animals, 1759<\/p><\/div>\n

Many of the animals are quite charming, like this duck and his friends:<\/p>\n

\"illustrated<\/p>\n

There are also some strange ones, such as this chameleon that looks like a monkey:<\/p>\n

\"Illustrated<\/p>\n

Even stranger is the elephant with human toes:<\/p>\n

\"Illustrated<\/p>\n

Our hands-down favourite, however, had to be ‘an unicorn’, which is featured right at the start of the book, alongside the rhinoceros!<\/p>\n

\"Illustrated<\/p>\n

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!<\/p>\n

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This post written by Danielle<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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