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Description: First Roycroft Press edition, signed limited issue, number 76 of 100 copies and signed by Elbert Hubbard, founder of the Roycroft artisan community (or by one of the Roycrofters whom he had trained to imitate his signature). The limited edition was printed on Japanese vellum, and a standard edition was released simultaneously on paper. Upon travelling to England in 1892 and meeting William Morris, Hubbard became enamoured of the arts and crafts movement and the productions of the Kelmscott Press. On his return to America, he started the Roycroft Press. His work became well-known and collected a community of craftspeople in Aurora. These were skilled metalsmiths, leathersmiths, and bookbinders, and attracted the patronage of Henry Ford, Theodore Roosevelt and Queen Victoria. McKenna 75. Octavo. Original brown half morocco, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, marbled sides and endpapers, top edge gilt. Portrait frontispiece of Dickens (with tissue guard), title page printed in red & black within a broad typographic border, decorative head- and tailpieces by Samuel Warner. Patch of skinning to front fore-corner. A near-fine copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom