The hind in the wood
A colour-printed children's fairy tale book by Walter Crane, published in London and New York by George Routledge and Sons in 1875, drawing on Madame d'Aulnoy's stories. Its three plates show a mounted knight in ornate armour on a white horse, two richly dressed youths beside a golden-wheeled chariot with a leaping white hind overhead, and a seated woman in a pale gown in a panelled room with a tall candelabrum. A designer could take its flat outlines, patterned textiles, and decorative borders as a model for storybook surface pattern.
