The book of fables and folk stories
A fables and folk-tale anthology compiled by Horace Elisha Scudder and published by Houghton Mifflin in Boston and New York in 1919, aimed at young readers. The pictures are black-and-white line illustrations showing animals in woodland and village settings, with a rabbit at a burrow door, a wolf beside a cave, a fox climbing a vine trellis, and a lion facing a donkey and a cat. A designer could take the crisp, hatched linework and the stylised animal characters as a model for vintage children's book art.
