The child's picture and verse book
Subtitle: commonly called Otto Speckter's fable book, with the original German and with French
By: translated into English by Mary Howitt
Contributors: Howitt, Mary (Mary Botham), 1799-1888, translator; Speckter, Otto, 1807-1871, illustrator
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood
Publisher: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans
Published: 1843
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
Subjects: Nature; Juvenile poetry; Animals; Birds; German Fables
Other titles: Otto Speckter's fable book
Work titles: Fabeln für Kinder
Notes: Date based on the translator's preface (dated 1843), and publisher & printer's dates; cf. Brown, P.A. London publishers and printers c. 1800-1870: page 116, Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, 1841-56; and page 122, Manning & Mason, 1838-46.

Binding design signed: "JL" [i.e. John Leighton].

Reproduction of the original from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.