Essay on silence / Fra Elbertus.

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)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Silence--Humor.

Silence.

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

1 volume (unpaged) ; 15 cm

Place of Publication:

[East Aurora, N.Y.] : [Roycrofters], [after 1905]

Notes:

Cover title.

Roycroft watermark on paper.

"One of Elbert Hubbard's best put-ons. The book is blank pages and was sold for thirty cents in stamps. Usually bound in suede, it was made up of paper trimmings and was a constant offering of the press after 1905."--Cf. McKenna.

All copies are slightly different, with different numbers of pages and slight differences in size. Known copies are bound in red, brown or green suede, brown calf, or variegated stamped leather. Some copies have dust jackets.

Local Notes:

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

Vilain-Wieck Collection copies bound bound in full suede. Covers have gilt title in rectangular surround.

Cited in:

McKenna, P. Roycroft, 114

Ogle, David. On a high shelf, OB-100-05

OCLC:

259865154