The valentine's gift; or, A plan to enable children of all denominations to behave with honour, integrity, and humanity : to which is added, some account of Old Zigzag, and of the horn which he used to understand the language of birds, beasts, fishes, and insects.
Austin, Richard T.,active 1800-1818.
Bewick, John,1760-1795.
Glasgow : J. Lumsden & Son,
[not before 1816]
"Price Sixpence."
Earliest publication date from Roscoe, cited below.
Dated by Gumuchian, 5710, as ca. 1815.
First published by John Newbery in 1765.
Woodcut frontispiece and 14 full-page illustrations, those at p. 34 and 39 signed "R. Austin"; the others are probably by him, according to Roscoe. Hugo, cited below, notes that "several may be by Bewick. Several, and perhaps all, are by Austin."
Frontispiece included in pagination.
Cover title: Lumsden & Sons edition of Valentine's gift.
Roscoe and Brimmel. James Lumsden
Hugo, T. Bewick,
Valentine's Day
Animal welfare
Human-animal communication