Thomas Boreman

His bookshops were located around London [1][2]Boreman published along with Richard Ware and Thomas Game from the 1730s.

Many of his books were based on Konrad Gesner's Historia animalium and some were inspired by Edward Topsell's Historie of Foure-Footed Beastes (1607).

Boreman's work itself is thought to have inspired Buffon's publication of the Histoire naturelle (1749–88).

[6] The engraver Thomas Bewick had seen Boreman's book when he was a child and had been disappointed by the quality of woodcuts in them.

[6] 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."