Hindu Stories

Another treasure from The Calico Cat Bookshop. 

The endpapers are beautifully illustrated with birds, animals, and vines. 

Each page is bordered with charming line drawings.  Edna Woolman Chase writes in her autobiography that these borders were called "spinach" in the early 20th-century publishing business.  This spinach is made of leopards, running deer, fierce lions, and elephants on the march.

I bought this book on August 13, 2009 at the Calico Cat Bookshop, Ventura, CA.

Williston, Teresa Peirce, Hindu Stories. New York: Rand McNally & Company, 1925.
Illustrated by Maud Hunt Squire.