and all were gone, leaving nothing behind but a cloud of dust
detail, 90ºcw and cropped three sides, back page facing circ slip, Harvard copy/scan,
Mary Howitt’s Story Book : With Illustrations (New York, 1850) link
same (via hathitrust) : link
epigram ex “Story of Little Crystal” : Part I, page 21 : link
via a-something-of’s project ongoing, its panoptic table at 2724a.
Mary Botham Howitt (1799-1888), writer of verse (famously including “The Spider and the Fly”) and stories; translator from Swedish and Danish; editor; Quaker (later spiritualist, and Catholic)
wikipedia : link
excellent survey by Nicholas R. Jones, his “William Howitt (1792-1879) and Mary Howitt (1799-1888)”
[Biographical and critical entry in British Romantic Prose Writers, 1789-1832, Second Series [Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 110] (Detroit, New York, London: Bruccoli Clark Layman — Gale Research, 1991), pp. 139-151] : link (pdf)
from list of author’s work : link