All illustrations are from the author’s collection, except 22.
| 1 | The Child Restored. Mezzotint by F. Green after a painting by Henri Singleton, 1801 | 30 |
| 2 | You are causing me a great misfortune. Title page of Schoppe-Weise, 1834 | 37 |
| 3 | Frontispiece of Von Schmid’s Hendrik van Eichenfels, 5th edition, about 1870 | 41 |
| 4 | The gypsy woman in the robber’s den. Fragment of illustration 2, in: Von Schmid, about 1870, opposite p. 25 | 42 |
| 5 | Robbers in prison and some hanged. Fragment of illustration 3, in: Von Schmid, about 1870, opposite p. 65 | 42 |
| 6 | The stolen child as musician. Blumauer’s Der Kinderkreis, 1832, opposite p. 150 | 46 |
| 7 | The child seduced by gypsies. Title page of Jacobs, 1810 | 49 |
| 8 | Slowly by slowly little Karel turned into a real gypsy child. Vetter, 1911, opposite p. 88 | 57 |
| 9 | Dora en Lily: the beginning … and the end. Armstrong 1894. Frontispiece and opposite p. 247 | 66 |
| 10 | The gypsy girl. Cover of Schouten, 1921 | 72 |
| 11 | Gypsy woman seducing the child, A True Story. The Child’s own Magazine, 1889, opposite p. 115 | 75 |
| 12 | Méryem with the stereotypical ‘tambour Basque’. Colomb/Mounier 1891, opposite p. 22 | 78 |
| 13 | The first English edition. Frontispiece and title page of Little Henry, 1823 | 86 |
| 14 | Frontispiece of the Schäfer & Koradi edition, Philadelphia, 1872 | 87 |
| 15 | The tragic effects of fortune telling. Frontispiece of Tawny Rachel, 1797 | 101 |
| 16 | The naïve child. Frontispiece and title page of Wakefield, 1821 ed. Thanks to Dr John Price, London, who presented me this copy | 105 |
| 17 | Begging in the city. Ann Taylor’s City Scenes, 1809 | 109 |
| 18 | Gypsy camp. Ann Taylor’s Rural Scenes, 1810 ed | 111 |
| 19 | Fortune telling. Ann Taylor’s Rural Scenes, 1810 ed | 113 |
| 20 | Harriet discussing with gypsy children. Frontispiece of Strickland, 1835 | 115 |
| 21 | Shooting the gypsies into the water. Darton, 1807 ed., Vol. 2, p. 22 | 117 |
| 22 | Playing gypsies. The Children’s Treasure, 1872. Thanks to the late Jos Wijnhoven, who permitted me to take a picture of his copy | 121 |
| 23 | John among the gypsies. Frontispiece and title page of Miller, 1881 ed | 123 |
| A place dirty and wretched. Frontispiece and title page of Onley, 1887 | 155 | |
| 25 | Cover illustration of the sixtieth edition of Meade, 1913 ed | 161 |
| 26 | Friendly gypsies. Cover illustration of Wood, edition about 1920 | 169 |
| 27 | An evening with the gypsies. In: Jacobs, 1847 ed., opposite p. 256 | 195 |
| 28 | The gypsy family in Egypt. In: Müller, 1844 ed., opposite p. 152 | 197 |
| 29a–b | The seal and the whale. Müller, 1844 ed., opposite p. 65 and 80 | 198 |
| 30 | Gypsies among criminals in an alehouse. In: Schoppe-Weise, 1835, opposite p. 86 | 201 |
| 31 | Gypsy woman seducing the girl. In: Schoppe-Weise 1829, opposite p. 86 | 203 |
| 32 | The gypsy and the devil. By permission of Upfield Careline Service/Sana Careline Team | 213 |
| 33 | The little girl we expected. In: Colomb, 1891, opposite p. 148 | 224 |
| 34 | Her bare arms appeared even darker. In: Colomb, 1891, opposite p. 252 | 227 |
| 35 | Postcard ‘The two little kids’, about 1900 | 238 |
| 36 | Cover and frontispiece depicting the burial of ‘pauvre Guta’. Des Prez de la Ville Tual, 3rd ed., about 1870 | 261 |
| 37 | Elmoth and the daughter of Egypt or Bohemia. Doublet, 1844 | 263 |
| 38a–b | Prize copy distributed by the Municipality of Paris. Sauvage, 1868 | 268 |
| 39 | Wolves attacking the donkey. Sauvage, 1868, p. 73 | 270 |
| 40 | Adalbert saved from complete humiliation. De Stolz, 1869, oppostite p. 72 | 280 |
| 41 | Grella cruelly punished. De Stolz, 1869, opposite p.144 | 282 |
| 42 | The synoptic frontispiece. De Stolz, Portuguese edition, 1873 | 285 |