The doctors : a satire in four seizures / by Elbert Hubbard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915.

Contributor:

Roycroft Shop.

Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)

Hunter, Dard, 1883-1966, illustrator.

Barnes, Burt, 1872-1947, illustrator.

Rare Books Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine--Humor.

Medicine.

Genre:

Humor.

Drama.

Penn Provenance:

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection)

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection)

Physical Description:

123 pages, 12 unnumbered leaves of plates : plates (colored) ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

East Aurora, N.Y. : The Roycrofters, 1909.

Notes:

The text is set in Elzivir and was printed on Boxmoor paper. It is believed that the title page and running head designs are by Dard Hunter. The illustrations were done by Burt Barnes. Some books are bound in sheep skin with hemp straps. Other binding variants include blind stamped suede and stamped leather.----cf. Roycroft Books [online resource]

Decorations by D. Hunter; ills. by Burt Barnes.

Local Notes:

Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Roycroft Press imprints presented to the Penn Libraries in 2012.

Roycroft 301 bound in full suede, with silk doublures. Cover has deeply impressed four line title, centered. The back cover is also embossed with the date and a Roycroft logotype.

Roycroft 302 bound in full sheepskin with hemp straps. Cover has deeply impressed four line title near the cover fore edge. The back cover is also embossed with the date and a Roycroft logotype.

Athenaeum copy: Gift: Mr. & Mrs. David S. Loeb.

Cited in:

McKenna, P. Roycroft, 179

Ogle, David. On a high shelf, OB-152-09

OCLC:

526263