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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF 
[howitt 
She was the first translator of Frederika Bremer’s novels, 
and also translated some of Hans Andersen’s Tales. In 
1879 she received a Civil List pension of £100 a year, her 
husband dying in the same year. She joined the Church of 
Rome in her declining years, living on the Continent and 
dying at Rome, January 30, 1888. 
*1834. Sketches | of | Natural History. | By Mary Howitt. | London : | 
Effingham Wilson, Boyal Exchange. | 1834. 
Collation — 1 vol. 12mo, pp. vi + pp. 167, vign. title + 23 pi. A 
poetical work, in which a few British birds are figured and men- 
tioned. 
Idem. Another edition entitled : Sketches of Natural History ; 
or, Songs of Animal Life. Illustrated by H. Giacomelli. London 
(Nelson) : 1873. 
Collation — 1 vol. sq. 8vo, pp. xii + pp. 13-212, with ill. 
1837. Birds and Flowers | and | other country things | by | Mary Howitt. 
| London : [date on preface 1837.] 
Collation — 1 vol. fcap. 8vo, pp. ix (mispr. xi.) incl. engr. title + 
pp. 208, with woodcuts. 
Partly in verse and partly in prose. Forms first vol. of “ The 
Christmas Library.” 
Idem. Another edition [1855], pp. vi + pp. 218. 
Idem. Another edition entitled : Birds and Flowers. With 87 
drawings on wood by H. Giacomelli. London (Nelson) : 1871. 
Collation — 1 vol. cr. 8vo, pp. xi + pp. 202, ill. 
1854. Pictorial Calendar of the Seasons, exhibiting the pleasures, pursuits 
and characteristics of country life for every month in the year, and 
embodying the whole of Aikin’s Calendar of Nature. Edited by 
Mary Howitt. Embellished with upwards of 100 engravings on 
wood. London (Bohn) : 1854. (And later reprints.) 
Collation — 1 vol. post 8vo, pp. viii + pp. 567, with cuts. 
Numerous references to Birds. 
[1871 ?] With the Birds. Poems, with 90 illustrations by Giacomelli. 
London : n.d. 
Collation — 1 vol. fcap 8vo, pp. i-viii + pp. 9-128, front, and 
cuts. 
[ 1872.] Birds and their Nests. With 23 full-page illustrations by Harrison 
Weir. London (Partridge) : n. d . 
Collation — 1 vol. fcap 4to, pp. vi + pp. 124, with 23 pi., vign. 
title and text cuts. 
Idem. Another edit. Ib. : n.d. [1885.] 
Collation — 1 vol. fcap 4to, pp. i-viii + pp. 9-112. 
Twenty-three familiar British birds are dealt with, the plates 
being paged in the later issue, but not in the first. 
