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Thomas Boreman was one of the earliest English children's book publishers.〔()〕〔 His ''Three Hundred Animals'' was published ca 1730.〔() 〕 Boreman's earliest works included his 1740 ''Gigantick Histories'', miniature books with illustrations and a list of subscribing readers, including the names of children as well as parents. He followed this two-volume publication with ''Curiosities in the Tower of London'', with illustrations of animals in the Tower Zoo. He published approximately a dozen titles. In 1742, he produced a book purporting to be the biography of Daniel Cajanus, ''The History of Cajanus, the Swedish Giant, from his Birth to the Present Time''. ==Quote== From the preface to ''Gigantic History'': "During the Infant-Age, ever busy and always inquiring, there is no fixing the attention of the mind, but by amusing it." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Thomas Boreman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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