An American bible / edited by Alice Hubbard.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hubbard, Alice, 1861-1915.

Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915.

Roycroft Shop.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Quotations, American.

Conduct of life.

Genre:

Essays.

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

9 unnumbered pages, 14-444 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : 1 portrait ; 19 cm

Place of Publication:

East Aurora, N.Y. : Published by the Roycrofters, [1911]

Notes:

A collection of quotations from Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, Abraham Lincoln, Walt Whitman, Robert Ingersoll, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Elbert Hubbard (p. [281]-444).

The text body was printed in two colors on unmarked laid paper. The book was bound in pigskin. The cover and spine designs are in the style of Dard Hunter but are unsigned.----cf. Roycroft Books [online resource]

Colophon: So here, then, endeth An American bible, and the same is submitted to the people ... in the hope that it will help them to live, and ... inspire them to write or compile other Bibles and better Bibles. Done into print by The Roycrofters, at their Shop, which is in East Aurora, Erie County, New York, Anno Domini, Nineteen Hundred Eleven.

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 has title and foliate surround in black (on cover) on coarse brown pigskin. Contains a frontispiece of Abraham Lincoln.

Cited in:

McKenna, P. Roycroft, 194

Ogle, David. On a high shelf, OB-166-11

OCLC:

13374659