[ Boreman & M'Quin / A Description of More Than Three Hundred Animals ]
Full title: A Description of more than three hundred animals, including quadrupeds, birds, fishes, serpents, and insects: forming a compendium of natural history, confirmed by actual and personal observations : with original remarks, and interesting quotations from ancient and modern authors: to which is subjoined a new and curious appendix upon allegorical and fabulous animals.
This is a revised edition of a book first published in London in 1730 by Thomas Boreman, an author, publisher, and bookseller who is credited with being one of the very first publishers of works in English for young adult readers.
This present work, much expanded and illustrated, was edited by Ange Denis M'Quin (1756-1823), who was identified only as "A. D. M." on the title page. M'Quin was a writer on various cultural and artistic topics. This volume was published in 1812 (London: B. and R. Crosby). This was the only edition.
The Newfoundland does not have a separate entry in this work's discussion of dog breeds, but appears in the entry for "Water Spaniels":
THE WATER SPANIEL Is excellent for hunting otters, wild ducks and other games, whose retreat is among the rushes and reeds which cover the banks of rivers, the fens, and the ponds. He is very sagacious, and perhaps the most docile and tractable of all the canine tribes. The Newfoundland Dogs are of this class, and the biggest of the family; their strength and their faithfulness to their masters are well known, and the concurrence of both has often proved most useful to people who were on the point of being drowned.
The illustration for this entry certainly does depict a dog that strongly resembles other early-19th Century illustrations of Newfoundlands:
