Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors, Volume VII (7). New Series: Thomas B. Macaulay, Lord Byron, Joseph Addison, Robert Southey, Samuel T. Coleridge, Benjamin Disraeli
by Hubbard, Elbert; illumined by Elizabeth Griffin; title page & initials designed by Samuel Warner
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
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- Condition
- Very Good
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About This Item
Roycrofters, East Aurora, NY, 1899. Of this edition but 947 copies were printed and specially illumined by hand: This book is No. 461.. Very Good. 8vo, flexible boards. SIGNED on limitation page by both Hubbard and Griffin. Bound in flexible, soft green suede w/ brown leather title panel on cover & spine, titling in gilt, top edge gilt. With illuminated title pg; each chapter with tissue-protected frontispiece portrait of the author profiled. Vg condition. Contents bright & clean, no markings, no foxing, binding & hinges firm. Suede covers show slight shift from original green to brown at spines & edges, not very noticeable. 162 pp., on Roycrofters handmade paper, edges untrimmed. Contents: Thomas B. Macaulay, Lord Byron, Joseph Addison, Robert Southey, Samuel T. Coleridge, Benjamin Disraeli.
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- Bookseller
- Tiber Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1170126.18
- Title
- Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors, Volume VII (7). New Series: Thomas B. Macaulay, Lord Byron, Joseph Addison, Robert Southey, Samuel T. Coleridge, Benjamin Disraeli
- Author
- Hubbard, Elbert; illumined by Elizabeth Griffin; title page & initials designed by Samuel Warner
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- Of this edition but 947 copies were printed and specially illumi
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Roycrofters, East Aurora, NY
- Date Published
- 1899
- Keywords
- Biography, History, Literary
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