Author: Rogers, Bruce and Isabel Butler (translator)
Title: The Song of Roland
Description: Boston, MA, Houghton, Mifflin & Co. Printed at Riverside Press, 1904. 74/220. Hardcover. Oversized, bound in 1/2 vellum with black spine lettering and floral illustrated paper boards; XXXIV pages, color illustrations. This edition was printed at the Riverside Press, Cambridge, for Houghton, Mifflin & Company, and consists of two hundred and twenty copies, of which this is no. 74"- Colophon. Title in red and black, with hand-colored Riverside Press device containing initials "br"; text printed from batarde type, opening initial gilt, others in blue, chapter headings and page numbers in red; side notes printed in ochre from civilité type. Illustrated with headpiece vignette and 5 roundels, all hand-colored, based on stained glass windows in Chartres Cathedral. One of the highpoints of American printing of the period. VG (binding is tight, pages are very clean and clear, small 1.5 inch tear to rear colophon page, light soiling to covers, mounted inside front cover is a small 2' x 1' bookplate for L.W. Drummond) .

Keywords: Literature Young and Old ; Epic Poetry; Roland ; ;


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