BOOKWORM

I am an avid reader and a book hoarder, so how could I choose what to blip for World Book Day?

So this is my oldest, tattiest book, but a treasure. A Description of Above Three Hundred Animals, dated 1802, with drawings of the weirdest animals.

The closed book is an 1812 edition and the drawings are far more like the animals we know. I can only imagine the artist of the 1802 edition had only brief glimpses or bad descriptions of his subjects to go on!