Little Red Riding Hood

Little Red Riding Hood. ''Edmund Evans, Engraver and Printer, Raquet Court, Fleet Street''-- outer lower wrapper. Cover title and imprint. In verse, beginning ''A long time ago, in a house near a wood''. Dated 1875 in Spencer, Isobel Walter Crane (London, 1975), p. 202; Mass?, followed in Osborne, suggests 1873; listed in English Catalogue, III, p. 110, with sixpenny toy books 111-116 as ''1874-5''. ''Walter Crane's toybooks. New series'' published [1873-76]-- BLC. First and last leaves paste-downs. Wrapper: Printed in yellow, red, and black on light yellow; publisher's advertisement on back cover: ''Routledge's new sixpenny toy books. Beautifully printed ... Dalziel Brothers'', nos. 37-115 (with gaps) in a single list. Osborne catalogue,I:27 Mass?, G.C.E. Walter Crane,p. 12 Spencer, I. Walter Crane,p. 202.