The Bashful Earthquake
Reading edition
& Other FABLES and VERSES by OLIVER HERFORD with many pictures by the Author

New York: Published by Charles Scribner’s Sons in the Autumn of MDCCCXCVIII
Copyright, 1898, By Oliver Herford.
University Press:
John Wilson and Son, Cambridge, U.S.A.
TO THE ILLUSTRATOR
IN GRATEFUL ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF HIS AMIABLE CONDESCENSION IN LENDING HIS EXQUISITELY DELICATE ART TO THE EMBELLISHMENT OF THESE POOR VERSES FROM HIS SINCEREST ADMIRER
THE AUTHOR