Thursday, October 13, 2011

Howitt: New Work of Animals


A New Work of Animals by Samuel Howitt (1811)

The book contains 100 plates by Samuel Howitt illustrating fables from Aesop, Phaedrus and John Gay, with the fables mostly in prose but the ones from Gay in verse. Here is the tortoise and the hare:



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