A new work of animals, principally designed from the fables of Aesop, Gay, and Phaedrus

"Samuel Howitt (1765-1822) was certainly one of England's greatest artists of animals. He was a brother-in-law of Thomas Rowlandson and shared some of his artistic traits, above all vivacity; but he was more truthful and accurate in his delineations of animals than was Rowlandson"--abebooks website.