round the card mount. In this way, from a single work the artist was able to extract three sources of income. A second edition of the whole book was published in 1818. Howitt's plates were also to be republished after his death. Further evidence of the esteem in which his work continued to be held was the use made of six illustrations as the basis of the Mintons, Hollins set of Aesop's Fables tiles, first issued in 1870, sixty years later. These included “The Tortoise and the Hare”, “The Cock, the Dog and the Fox”, “The Sick Stag”, “The Boar and the Fox”, “The Bear and the Travellers” and “The Bear and the Bees”. References Bibliography (selected) Illustrated by Howitt: Oriental Field Sports: Being a Complete, Detailed, and Accurate Description of the Wild Sports of the East; and Exhibiting, in a Novel and Interesting Manner, the Natural History of the Elephant, the Rhinoceros, the Tiger, the Leopard, the Bear, the Deer, the Buffalo, the Wolf, the Wild Hog, the Jackall, the Wild Dog, the Civet, and Other Undomesticated Animals: As Likewise the Different Species of Feathered Game, Fishes, and Serpents, London 1807, Volume 1 Groups of Animals, Containing Forty-four Plates, Drawn from the Life and Etched, London 1811 A New Work of Animals, London 1811; a better and more complete copy is accessible in the Online Archive Foreign Field Sports, Fisheries, Sporting Anecdotes,&c, London 1819 External links Works by Samuel Howitt (Heatons of Tisbury) Samuel Howitt online (ArtCyclopedia) Howitt on Artnet Animal artists 18th-century English painters English male painters 19th-century English painters English watercolourists Landscape artists People from Nottinghamshire 1756 births 1822 deaths People from Chigwell 19th-century English male artists 18th-century English male artists