Author: HUBBARD, ELBERT . [SUEDE BINDING]
Title: Litle Journeys To The Homes Of Great Philosophers - Socrates . [suede binding] .
Description: East Aurora, New York: Roycrofters, MCMIV [ 1904 ] . 0. First Edition. 8vo. 20.5cm x 15.5cm . [6pp.]/pp.28 . A very good copy, well bound in brown suede leather, over soft card covers, with yapp edges (lightly rubbed). Front cover with leather title panels: "Little Journeys - Great Philosophers" & "Socrates". Spine lightly sunned. Top page edges gilt, other page edges uncut. Brown washed silk endpapers, lightly soiled. Blank free-endpapers. Sepia coloured portrait frontis. Coloured title, with foliage (art nouveau style?) decorations. Many pages with illuminated capitals. Clean text througohut. After p.28 appears a colophon in red: " Here endeth the little journey to the home of Socrates, as written by Elbert Hubbard. The borders and initials being designed by Roycroft artits title page & initials being designed by Roycroft Artists, portrait by Otto J. Schneider, and the whole done into a printed book by the Roycrofters, at their shop, which is in East Aurora, New York, in the year MCMIV ".

Keywords: [Suede Binding] Otto J. Schneider 12380 East Aurora, New York: Roycrofters Litle Journeys to the Homes of Great Philosophers Socrates Hubbard, Elbert Suede Books


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