![The Story of Little Red Riding Hood’s Christmas]. by [GREENAWAY, Kate.](https://images.vialibri.net/production/26/7487---height_450.jpg?v=1727436394)
[GREENAWAY, Kate. ~ The Story of Little Red Riding Hood’s Christmas]. [London:] Marcus Ward & Co, [before 1868].
6 colour printed cards (102 × 69 mm) with gold borders. Traces of album mounting at verso, one with slight split/tear (nor loss).
One of two versions of this early Kate Greenaway set, this one apparently issued for use as Christmas cards. The daughter of a dressmaker and a jobbing wood engraver, Kate received her first book illustration commissions while still at school. She attended the Royal Female School of Art, though was frustrated by the strictures governing forbidding life drawing and so enrolled at Heatherley School of Fine Art where she met Edward Burne-Jones, Edward Poynter, and Walter Crane. By this time she was already producing regular book illustrations and was in demand by producers of newly-fashionable greetings cards. Schuster & Engen, Kate Greenaway, 291.