Picture fables
Picture Fables is an 1858 New York children's collection of German fables by Wilhelm Hey, issued by D. Appleton and engraved by the Dalziel Brothers from designs by Otto Speckter, with verse translated by H. W. Dulcken. The pictures are fine-line wood engravings of rustic scenes: a fox watching a figure at a barn, a dog and a pig in a stable, a dog dozing by a cottage door, and a boy with a sack gazing at a bird. A designer might borrow the economical hatching, the thatched farm settings and the gentle animal characterisation for storybook or heritage-style work.
