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Image of the cover of An Argosy of Fables Edited by Frederic Taber Cooper. Illustrated by Paul Bransom. All the above text is printed on the cover, and at center there is an image of three monkeys sitting in a tree. Image of the endpapers from An Argosy of Fables by Frederic Taber Cooper. Image shows a number of animals each standing over a different word showing a flaw. Each of these words are connected to lines which are being held by the jester pictured at the lower right. Image of a color plate from An Argosy of Fables by Frederic Taber Cooper. Image titled "The Peacock Insisted on Being Painted First" Shows a white bird holding a paintbrush next to a highly colored peacock. Image of a color plate from An Argosy of Fables by Frederic Taber Cooper. Image title is "The Covetous Traveller Made Up His Mind to Trust the Tiger." Image shows a man with a turban standing waist deep in a river and facing down a tiger.

Argosy of Fables

Old & Rare
$275.00

Author: Frederic Taber Cooper

Illustrator: Paul Bransom

COOPER, Frederic Taber. An Argosy of Fables. A Representative Selection from the Fable Literature of Every Age and Land. Selected and Edited by Frederic Taber Cooper. With Illustrations in Color by Paul Bransom. NY: Frederick A. Stokes Company Publishers [ca. 1921]. 4to, xxii 485pp. Blue cloth stamped in yellow and orange. B&w pictorial endpapers; 24 full-color plates. A bright clean copy with slight rubbing around board edges, discoloration to rear board, slight warping to front board, and slight browning to edges of pages.

First Edition. A collection of famous fables from around the world, including the works of Aesop, Phaedrus, LaFontaine, Alexander Pope and a variety of other authors from the Western and Eastern cannons. All captured in beautiful illustrations by Paul Bransom.

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