Beauty and the beast
A late nineteenth-century New York children's edition of Charles Perrault's fairy tale, published by McLoughlin Brothers in 1891 for young readers. The four pictures are plain pen-and-ink scenes on a tan paper ground showing courtly figures in doublets and gowns, with a beast-like figure in a lion-maned costume. A designer could take from them the simple line-hatching and warm sepia palette typical of Victorian toy-book illustration.
