Sunday, February 15, 2009

Red Riding Hood - Lydia Louisa Anna Very


An early example of a shape book, the entire book is cut into the shape of Red Riding Hood.
1863

4 comments:

Cat (darklingwoods) said...

I love the wolf at her feet! So glad I found your wonderful blog... came over from Acorn Moon

Hermes said...

Thank you kindy. I love Acorn's work.

catmint said...

Hi Hermes, thank you for this picture. I don't know about shape books and don't really understand how it works. Can you please say more?

Hermes said...

Hi Catmint.
It just means that instead of being square, the book was cut to a shape. A gimmick really but this us a very early example.