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Little Red Riding Hood. - London : George Routledge & Sons, [1866]. Variant B: [1870]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.W.291) -
Little Red Riding Hood. - London : George Routledge & Sons, [1866]. Variant B: [1870]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.W.291) -
Little Red Riding Hood. - London : George Routledge & Sons, [1866]. Variant B: [1870]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.W.291) -
Little Red Riding Hood. - London : George Routledge & Sons, [1866]. Variant B: [1870]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.W.291) -
Little Red Riding Hood. - London : George Routledge & Sons, [1866]. Variant B: [1870]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.W.291) -
Little Red Riding Hood. - London : George Routledge & Sons, [1866]. Variant B: [1870]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.W.291)
Little Red Riding Hood
pcb2851
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Little Red Riding Hood. - London : George Routledge & Sons, [1866]. Variant B: [1870]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.W.291)
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Little Red Riding Hood. - London : George Routledge & Sons, [1866]. Variant B: [1870]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.W.291)
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Little Red Riding Hood. - London : George Routledge & Sons, [1866]. Variant B: [1870]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.W.291)
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Little Red Riding Hood. - London : George Routledge & Sons, [1866]. Variant B: [1870]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.W.291)
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Little Red Riding Hood. - London : George Routledge & Sons, [1866]. Variant B: [1870]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.W.291)
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Little Red Riding Hood. - London : George Routledge & Sons, [1866]. Variant B: [1870]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.W.291)
TITLE
Little Red Riding Hood.
VARIANT TITLE
Title from page 1
Little Red Riding-Hood and the wicked wolf.
Little Red Riding-Hood and the wicked wolf.
PUBLISHED
London : George Routledge & Sons, [1866].
PRINTED
[London] : Leighton, Brothers.
PRICE
6d.
1s. : mounted on cloth
1s. : mounted on cloth
AUTHOR
Evans, Edmund (engraver and printer) ![]()
George Routledge and Sons (publisher)![]()
Leighton, Brothers (printer)![]()
Weir, Harrison (illustrator)![]()
George Routledge and Sons (publisher)
Leighton, Brothers (printer)
Weir, Harrison (illustrator)
TYPOLOGY
DESCRIPTION
Size
24,5x16,5 cm
Format and pagination
8° : 8 ll.
Signatures
A8
Signatures note
1 gathering, sewn, paginated 1-8
Contents
1-8, text and wood-engraved vignettes
Illustrations
8 illustrations, same as pcb2849, by Harrison Weir, engraved and signed by Evans, printed in red, yellow, brown, blue, pink and the black key by Evans; text and illustration on the same side of the sheet
Source for attribution
Monogram (illustrator)
Signature (engraver)
Stylistic analysis (printer of inside illustrations, by comparison with pcb2849, variant B)
Statement of responsibility (printer of wrappers)
Source for date
List of titles on lower wrapper
Documents
Between 1859 and 1866, publishers' advertisements listed this title as no. 25 of Aunt Mavor's toy books (see pcb2849)
Listed in Routledge's wholesale catalogue of July 1866 as no. 5 of Routledge's new sixpenny toy books series (see hereby, Documents: 1st edition as no. 5 of Routledge's new sixpenny toy books, July 1866, with a print run of 5000 copies)
Between 1866 and 1870, listed in publishers' advertisements as no. 5 of Routledge's new sixpenny toy books series
After 1868 became no. 45 of Routledge's new sixpenny toy books series, listed as such in publishers' advertisements between 1871 and 1874
Possibly withdrawn from production after 1875, when the Walter Crane's toy book with the same title was published within the same serie
24,5x16,5 cm
Format and pagination
8° : 8 ll.
Signatures
A8
Signatures note
1 gathering, sewn, paginated 1-8
Contents
1-8, text and wood-engraved vignettes
Illustrations
8 illustrations, same as pcb2849, by Harrison Weir, engraved and signed by Evans, printed in red, yellow, brown, blue, pink and the black key by Evans; text and illustration on the same side of the sheet
Source for attribution
Monogram (illustrator)
Signature (engraver)
Stylistic analysis (printer of inside illustrations, by comparison with pcb2849, variant B)
Statement of responsibility (printer of wrappers)
Source for date
List of titles on lower wrapper
Documents
Between 1859 and 1866, publishers' advertisements listed this title as no. 25 of Aunt Mavor's toy books (see pcb2849)
Listed in Routledge's wholesale catalogue of July 1866 as no. 5 of Routledge's new sixpenny toy books series (see hereby, Documents: 1st edition as no. 5 of Routledge's new sixpenny toy books, July 1866, with a print run of 5000 copies)
Between 1866 and 1870, listed in publishers' advertisements as no. 5 of Routledge's new sixpenny toy books series
After 1868 became no. 45 of Routledge's new sixpenny toy books series, listed as such in publishers' advertisements between 1871 and 1874
Possibly withdrawn from production after 1875, when the Walter Crane's toy book with the same title was published within the same serie
NOTES
Printed on one side of the sheet only; first and last page pasted to upper and lower wrappers
Title and publication information from upper wrapper, which serves as title page, and from lower wrapper publishers' advertisements
Documents make no difference between this title as belonging to Aunt Mavor's toy books series or to Routledge's new sixpenny toy books series
Title and publication information from upper wrapper, which serves as title page, and from lower wrapper publishers' advertisements
Documents make no difference between this title as belonging to Aunt Mavor's toy books series or to Routledge's new sixpenny toy books series
PRINTING TECHNIQUES
VARIANTS
Variant A
[1866]: untraced
Variant B
[1870]: upper wrapper uniform for the series, same as pcb2784, variant A, with decorated red frame; specific for this title: title: "[black] LITTLE | [red, outlined in black] RED | RIDING HOOD."; picture from p. 1, signed by Harrison Weir with a heart-shaped monogram and by Evans; 1870 lower wrapper, printed in black on orange paper: "ROUTLEDGE'S | NEW | SIXPENNY TOY BOOKS. | BEAUTIFULLY PRINTED IN COLOURS, | BY MESSRS. | LEIGHTON BROTHERS, KRONHEIM & CO., VINCENT BROOKS, & EDMUND EVANS. | [two columns of unnumbered titles, the last of which are The fairy ship and Adventures of Puffy, published in 1870] | GEORGE ROUTLEDGE & SONS."; at foot, outside the frame: "LEIGHTON, BROTHERS, PRINTERS."
[1866]: untraced
Variant B
[1870]: upper wrapper uniform for the series, same as pcb2784, variant A, with decorated red frame; specific for this title: title: "[black] LITTLE | [red, outlined in black] RED | RIDING HOOD."; picture from p. 1, signed by Harrison Weir with a heart-shaped monogram and by Evans; 1870 lower wrapper, printed in black on orange paper: "ROUTLEDGE'S | NEW | SIXPENNY TOY BOOKS. | BEAUTIFULLY PRINTED IN COLOURS, | BY MESSRS. | LEIGHTON BROTHERS, KRONHEIM & CO., VINCENT BROOKS, & EDMUND EVANS. | [two columns of unnumbered titles, the last of which are The fairy ship and Adventures of Puffy, published in 1870] | GEORGE ROUTLEDGE & SONS."; at foot, outside the frame: "LEIGHTON, BROTHERS, PRINTERS."
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2006 Masaki, I.497-498, II.E20-21 (NAL: 60.W.291)
COPIES
DRAWINGS, OBJECTS, DOCUMENTS
OTHER VERSIONS
PERMALINK
CITATION
Francesca Tancini, "Little Red Riding Hood". In PiCoBoo, accessed May 15, 2024, https://www.picoboo.eu/catalogue/pcb2851