These pages recount little journeys made to the homes of Ruskin and Turner / by Elbert Hubbard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915.

Contributor:

Roycroft Shop.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900.

Ruskin, John.

Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775-1851.

Turner, J. M. W.

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) (copy 2)

Hubbard, Bertha C. (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection) (copy 1)

Physical Description:

53 pages, 12 unnumbered leaves of plates : plates ; 27 cm

Other Title:

Little journeys made to the homes of Ruskin and Turner

Ruskin and Turner.

Place of Publication:

East Aurora, N.Y. : Roycroft Printing Shop, 1896 [©1895]

Notes:

The text body is set in Old Style Antiqua and 26 copies were printed on either Whatman handmade or Japan Vellum paper, hand illuminated by Bertha Hubbard, and bound in a crushed Levant or paper over board with a buckram spine. The regular edition of 473 copies was printed on Whatman handmade paper and bound in paper over boards with a white buckram spine or bound in suede with cloth ties. Both editions illustrated with photogravures of Turner's work on vellum with the regular edition numbered and signed in Hubbard's name and the edition of 26 signed by Bertha Hubbard.--cf. Roycroft Books [online resource]

Cover title: Ruskin and Turner.

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 1 is specially hand illumined and autographed by Bertha C. Hubbard; number 17 of 26. Also has inscription, in pencil, (To) R.E.S. & H.S. from C.W.R. Feb. 9, 1897. Bound in paper over boards with Buckram spine.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy 2 is number 227 of 473 copies. Signed by Hubbard. Hand-illumined. Rebound in red cover. Photo of Elbert Hubbard tipped in at end.

Cited in:

McKenna, P. Roycroft, 7

Ogle, David. On a high shelf, OB-007-96

Other Format:

Online version: Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915. These pages recount little journeys made to the homes of Ruskin and Turner.

OCLC:

2759466