[Pig book]
A children's picture book from Chicago, published around 1890 and attributed to Mary Augusta Cutler, with a catalogue record that gives little beyond its games subject. The single picture is a sepia-toned plate showing a plump pig asleep in a dark arched hollow beside a striped cloth or sack, with a rhymed verse printed vertically in the left margin. A designer could take its quiet, low-contrast nursery mood, the sideways verse set as a graphic device, and the soft shadowed ground.
![Picture 1 of 1 from [Pig book] (1890), leaf 31](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-pigbook00cutl-31-0.webp)