A little boy's story
A children's story from 1869, published in New York by Hurd and Houghton and printed at the Riverside Press in Cambridge, translated from the French of Julie Gouraud and illustrated by Howard Glyndon for young readers. The four pictures are small wood-engraved scenes of children at play, in gardens and rooms, with clothing and furniture shown in crisp contour lines and loose hatched shading. A designer might take from them the economical line work, the lively gesture of children, and the Victorian-era costume detail, with one dramatic upside-down-looking scene of a man leaping over furniture as a reference for movement.
