Grandfather Frog Gets a Scan

Here's another book from my vast collection of illustrations amassed for no apparent reason… other than that I really like the style. It was written in the early-to-mid-1920s by Thornton Waldo Burgess and illustrated by his longtime collaborator, Walter Harrison Cady, and, even in the poor condition mine is in, I am still pleased to say it rests on my shelf. 

It doesn't have a cover at all, or a title page… if it had one, it would look like this:

(stolen from a sales page, where
a complete copy is worth actual money)

As it is, what I, personally, own, looks a bit like the following, except slightly faded and yellowed, with a couple of small water stains (apparently, Grandfather Frog, Little Joe Otter, or Jerry Muskrat strolled through & dripped on the pages). Otherwise, the pages are crisp and fresh, and I do my best not to mutilate it further, each time I leaf through the pages. 

Maybe now that it's digital, the paper will get more relief…

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