One hundred picture fables
By: drawn by Otto Speckter ; engraved by the Brothers Dalziel ; with rhymes translated from the German of F. [sic] Hey by H. W. Dulcken ...
Contributors: Hey, Wilhelm, 1789-1854.; Dulcken, H. W. 1832-1894.; Leighton, John, 1822-1912.; Dalziel Brothers.; Camden Press
Edition: Tenth thousand.
Publisher: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge
Published: 1864
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 101
Subjects: Illustrated children's books -- Specimens.; Animals -- Juvenile poetry.; Fables, German.
Genres: Specimens.; Juvenile poetry.
Notes: Added wood-engraved t.p. with illustrated border design.  T.p. plate and preliminary plate included in pagination.

Prelminary pages printed in red and black.

Original text written by Wilhelm Hey.  Cf. St. John, Judith. Osborne collection of early children's books, 1958.

With the same setting of type [except preliminary pages] and wood-engraved illustrations as used in an edition entitled: "Picture fables", published in 1858 by George Routledge and Co.  See McLean D 1046.

Plates and several illustrations are with the same imagery as those printed in colour in an edition of a similar title published in [1868] by George Routledge and Sons.  See McLean D 1048.

St. John, Judith. Osborne collection of early children's books, Vol. 1, p. 65.

MASS copy: Bound in red calico cloth blocked in gold and blind.  Upper cover and spine with signature: "JL" [i.e. John Leighton].  With presentation inscription dated 1868.