A thousand & one epigrams : selected from the writings of Elbert Hubbard.

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):

Epigrams, American.

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

3 preliminary leaves, 9-186, xi pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 16 cm

Other Title:

1001 epigrams

Place of Publication:

[East Aurora] : [The Roycrofters], [1911]

Notes:

The body of the text is set in Scotch Roman and it was printed in two colors on Roycroft watermarked paper. The book was bound in blind stamped flexible leather. The other binding variants are paper over boards, 3/4 Levant, modeled leather, and full leather.----cf. Roycroft Books [online resource]

Title within ornamental borders, distributed on two preliminary leaves; text within double line borders.

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 is bound in stamped leather; machine embossed Oxford binding, rectangular cover design with quatrefoil corners. Teg. In box.

Cited in:

McKenna, P. Roycroft, 201

Ogle, David. On a high shelf, OB-175-11

Other Format:

Online version: Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915. Thousand & one epigrams.

OCLC:

362454