This then is Sesame & lilies / by John Ruskin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900.

Contributor:

Roycroft Shop.

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

Standardized Title:

Sesame and lilies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Books and reading.

Social problems.

Conduct of life.

Women.

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection)

Physical Description:

142 pages ; 21 cm

Other Title:

Sesame and lilies

Place of Publication:

East Aurora, N.Y. : Done into a Book at the Roycroft Shop, 1897.

Notes:

"Of this edition I printed four hundred and fifty copies. The types were then distributed. Each book is signed [by Elbert Hubbard] and numbered"--Page [5].

Text body is Antiqua Old Style and 450 copies were printed in 2 colors on Whatman paper and hand illuminated. The binding is paper over boards with a white Buckram spine. 40 copies had special hand illumination and a few copies were bound in 3/4 and full Levant. The whole edition was numbered and signed by or for Elbert Hubbard in his name.----cf. Roycroft Books [online resource]

Hand illuminated by various members of the Roycroft Shop.

Local Notes:

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

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy Bound in gray boards, white buckram spine with gilt cover and spine titles. Hand illumination on title page signed: F.S. 8/16/98.

Cited in:

McKenna, P. Roycroft, 16

Ogle, David. On a high shelf, OB-016-97

OCLC:

4259228