Slideshow to accompany "Little Red Riding Hood" Bechtel Fellowship study & report. Part 1: images of Little Red meeting the Wolf. Part 2: Images of Little Red meeting the Wolf as Grandmother.

1. Bechtel Fellowship, 2017 — Angela J. Reynolds
The Better to SeeYouWith: Part II
Exploring Little Red Riding Hood at the Baldwin Collection, University of Florida

2. A visual study Part II: What Big Eyes
You Have
✤ These slides are a visual accompaniment to the Bechtel
Fellowship report and presentation, The Better to See
You With: Peering into the story of Little Red Riding Hood,
1695 - 1939, by Angela J. Reynolds. Part I is “Meeting
the Wolf”; Part II is “What Big Eyes You Have” (Little
Red and the Wolf as Grandmother). All photographs
were taken by Angela J. Reynolds at the George A.
Smathers Library, Baldwin Collection, University of
Florida, April - May 2017. See last slides for
bibliographic information.

3. G8, published 1956, Facsimile of 1695 Perrault manuscript
Timeline: 1697: Perrault publishes
1729: Perrault translated into English
C4, 1807,
classic Perrault version

4. Timeline: 1812: Grimm publishes Household Tales
1823: Grimm translated into English
1820’s - 1840’s - Chapbooks popular
C1 1835
A5 circa 1830

5. Art begins to move beyond simple woodcuts
J7, 1838 predates Doré
R3, 1836

6. Timeline: 1840: Coloured or “Toy” books appear. Often hand coloured.
1840’s: Books larger than chapbooks being published
A6, 1840, hand coloured
A9, 1840

7. Timeline: 1860’s: With advent of photography, engraving changes & improves
E1, 1864
Stylish girl!
Note curtained bed, shoes.

8. Timeline: 1864: Gustave Doré illustrates Perrault’s “Little Red Riding Hood”
A10, 1870
This image
contains both
sensuality and
fear. Personifies
Victorian
sentiments on
nature.

9. Doré’s influence is seen throughout the history of LRRH
A11, 1870
D5, 1868
G6, 1892
original sketch, Orr Family Papers

10. Timeline: 1870’s: Children’s books become fashionable and profitable as
growing middle class increases interest in and purchase of books; publishers
repurpose stories and plates in several editions
D6, 1870
L6, 1870 T6, 1873
All three published by Frederick Warne & Co, London

11. Timeline: 1870-76: Compulsory education in UK
1878-1886: Randolph Caldecott is being published
1875: Walter Crane’s “Toy Book” features Wolf dressed as Man
F11, 1875 bonus “dead wolf” image

12. Timeline: 1880-1900: Moveable & shaped books become popular
E5, 1877, panels open
to reveal another image
M8, 1880, tissue paper images pop out

13. Example of movable and shaped book:
Theatre curtains open to story
P9, 1891

14. Timeline: 1890’s: Industrial production possible;
1890’s: Children’s books noticed and written about
1890’s: Arts & Crafts, Art Nouveau influence on illustration
1892: Public education in US, rise in literacy levels;
P5, 1895 furniture, architecture
influenced by Arts & Crafts movement
H5, 1903 Art Nouveau influence

15. Timeline: 1900-1912: Quality gift books are fashionable
Early 1900’s: Mastery of four-colour process
1900’s: Text becomes as important as images in children's books
O3, 1911 -
colour
O4, 1909 -
Signed limited
edition, bound
in leather, art
pages tipped in

16. H2, 1916,
illustrated by John
Gruelle, bonus
“dead wolf”
image, also, LR
learns lesson
Timeline: 1914: Children’s Library opens in Brownsville, NY
1914 - 1918: World War 1; age of gift book is over
B7, 1914,
moveable book

17. Timeline: 1920’s: Women’s roles are changing
1924: Horn Book magazine founded
O1, 1920 -
Little Red finds a way to escape

18. Timeline: 1930’s: Cheap picture books for children now being published
J2, 1934 - Disney
mash-up w/ 3 Pigs
J5, 1933 - pop-up
I3, 1931-
Eulalie Banks &
Lois Lenski

19. All books presented in this slideshow from the
Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature at the University of Florida
Books are listed in order of slides; Letter-number code is Reynolds’ research number, used here for ease of cross-reference.
Slides 1-9
G8 Perrault, Charles Contes de la mère l’oye / Tales of Mother Goose (New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1956.) UF 23h49494
C4 History of Little Red Riding Hood in Verse (London: B. Tabard, J. Harris, 1807) UF 15p1103
A5 Entertaining History of Little Red Riding Hood (York: J. Kendrew Penny Books, circa 1830) UF 15p1830
C1 History of Little Red Riding Hood (Otley: William Walker, 1835) UF 15p3392
R3 The Fairy Book illustrated by J.A. Adams (New York: Harper & Brothers, circa 1836-1852) UF 23h7657
J7 The Child’s Fairy Library illustrations signed “Granville” (London: Joseph Thomas, Tegg & Son, 1838) UF 15h970
A6 History of Little Red Riding Hood (Albany: Sprague & Company, circa 1830) UF 23p1033
A9 Little Red Riding Hood (Otley: J.S. Publishing & Stationery, circa 1840) UF 23p1227
E1 Stoddard, R. Henry; illustrated by Alfred Fredericks Little Red Riding Hood (New York: J.G. Gregory, 1864) UF 39p11
A10 Fairy Tales Told Again, eighth edition, illustrated by Gustave Doré (London: Cassell, Petter, Galpin, & Co, 1870) UF 39h8619
D5 Child’s Own Book of Standard Fairy Tales illustrated by George Cruikshank (Philadelphia: Duffield Ashamed, 1868) UF 23h5861
A11 Child’s Wonder Picture Book of Favourite Stories engravings by Dalziel brothers (London: Ward, Lock, and Co., circa 1870) UF 39h937
ORR, Nathaniel - Original sketch in Orr family papers, Box 6. Date unknown.
G6 Lovett, R.W. (indexed by) Robinson Crusoe, the Clever Cats, & c (London: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1892) UF 39h284 digitized
J4 Coussens, Penrhyn W. (selected 7 arranged by), illustrated by Jessie Wilcox Smith A Child’s Book of Stories (New York: Dodd, Mead, & Co., copyright
1911, this edition 1934) UF 39h3383

20. D6 Baker, Sarah S. Aunt Friendly’s Nursery Favourite (London: Frederick Warne & Co. , 1870)
L6 Red Riding Hood (London: Frederick Warne & Co., circa 1870) UF 23p1888
T6 Warne’s National Nursery Library: Little Red Riding Hood issue (London: Frederick Warne & Co., 1873) UF 23h18933 Digitized
,
F11 Crane, Walter Walter Crane’s Toy Books: Little Red Riding Hood (London: G. Routledge, 1875) UF 39p662 digitized
E5 Little Red Riding Hood and Cinderella (London: Dean and Son, 1877) UF 23h49432
M8 Little Red Riding Hood (Philadelphia: B. Wilmsen, circa 1880) UF 39p1702 digitized
P9 Red Riding Hood (New York: McLoughlin Brothers. 1891) UF 39p9 Digitized
H5 Denslow, W.W. Denslow’s Little Red Riding Hood (New York: G.W. Gillingham Co., 1903) UF 39p1867 Digitized
P5 Little Red Riding Hood (“Printed in Bavaria” No Publisher info available, circa 1895) UF 39p1711 digitized
O4 Lucas, Mrs. Edgar (translated by) illustrated by Arthur Rackham Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm (London: Constable & Co., 1909) Signed, copy
56 of 750. UF 39p1840
O3 Red Riding Hood illustrated by Gordon Robinson (New York: Sam’l Gabriel, 1911) UF 23p1684
B7 Little Red Riding Hood (New York: Pictorial Color Book Co., Inc, circa 1914) UF 23h11865
H2 Gruelle, John B. All About Little Red Riding Hood (New York: Cupples & Leon Co., 1916) UF 15h5872
O1 Little Red Riding Hood (Chicago: M.A. Donahue, circa 1920)
J5 Little Red Riding Hood illustrated by Harold B. Lentz (New York: Blue Ribbon Books, 1933) UF 23h10983
J2 Disney, Walt (staff) Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf (Philadelphia: David McKay, 1934) UF 23p1892
I3 Piper, Watty (edited by) illustrated by Eulalie Banks & Lois Lenksi Tick-Tock Tales (New York: Platt & Munk Co., 1931) UF 39h13118
All books presented in this slideshow from the
Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature at the University of Florida
Books are listed in order of slides; Letter-number code is Reynolds’ research number, used here for ease of cross-reference.
Slides 10-18

21. This slideshow is research work by Angela J. Reynolds,
for educational purposes only.
“UF” number is call number. Some editions digitized; noted where applicable.