Old John Burroughs / by 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):

Burroughs, John, 1837-1921.

Burroughs, John.

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Fattey, Alta (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection) (Roycroft 336)

Physical Description:

19 pages, 3 unnumbered leaves of plates : facsimile, portrait ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

East Aurora, N.Y. : Roycroft Shop, [1901]

Notes:

The text body is Caslon printed on Dickinson handmade, Roycroft watermarked paper. The regular edition of this book was bound in paper over boards with a cloth spine. Additionally some copies were bound 3/4 leather with extra illumination. The book contains manuscript reproduction pages and a photo of Burroughs which were printed on Japan Vellum. The title page, initials and colophon are typically hand illuminated. The number of books produced is unknown for both the regular and 3/4 leather editions. Twelve copies are known to have been printed on Japan Vellum and bound full Levant.----cf. Roycroft Books [online resource]

Local Notes:

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

Roycroft 334 bound in 1/2 cloth; white buckram spine; with white title on gray boards.

Roycrfot 335 bound in 1/2 cloth; olive buckram spine; with white title on gray boards.

Roycroft 336 bound in 1/2 cloth; white buckram spine; with white title on gray boards. With extra illumination by Alva Fattey.

Cited in:

McKenna, P. Roycroft, 71

Ogle, David. On a high shelf, OB-066-02

Other Format:

Online version: Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915. Old John Burroughs.

OCLC:

899426