The essay on self-reliance / by Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882.

Contributor:

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- donor.

Wieck, Roger S., donor.

Carter, Miss, former owner.

Young, H. A., inscriber.

Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915.

Roycroft Shop.

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

Standardized Title:

Self-reliance

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Self-reliance.

Physical Description:

59 pages : portrait ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

East Aurora, N.Y. : Printed by the Roycrofters at their shop, 1908.

Notes:

"Copyright 1908 by Elbert Hubbard"--Title page verso.

"Here endeth the Essay on self-reliance, written by Ralph Waldo Emerson, and done into a book by the Roycrofters at their shop which is in East Aurora, Erie County, New York, MCMVIII"--Colophon.

"The text body is set in Cheltenham and was printed in two colors on Roycroft hand made paper. The binding is paper over boards with a cloth spine. McKenna states that this was the first Roycroft book to use a dust jacket and there were two varieties. One was a glassine dust jacket and the other was a brown paper wrapper"----cf. Roycroft Books [online resource]

T.p. has printer's device.

Local Notes:

Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Roycroft Press imprints Roycroft 39 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2012. Bound in blue boards with white buckram spine.

Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Roycroft Press imprints Roycroft 40 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2012. Bound in blue boards with white buckram spine. Brown paper wrapper. In case. Inscribed by H.A. Young to Miss Carter, 1917.

Cited in:

McKenna, P. Roycroft, 160

Ogle, David. On a high shelf, OB-139-08

OCLC:

2354263