Summary: | "In verse. Cover title; series from head of cover. "Price sixpence. Or mounted, one shilling."--cover, between series and title. "London: Frederick Warne & Co., Bedford Street, Covent Garden."--back cover. Frederick Warne was founded July 1, 1865, and was located at 15 Bedford St., London; see Arthur King and A.F. Stuart, The House of Warne (1965), p. 3. Color lithographed illustrations are characterstic of those found in children's picture books between 1865 and 1875. Illustrations lithographed in color; signed: AWB [i.e., Alfred W. Bayes]. "Warne's large picture toy books. Crown 4to., sixpence each, printed in colours by the Brothers Dalziel. ... 4. Litte Red Riding-Hood. ... Dalziel Brothers, Camden Press."--advertisement, back cover."
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