A GROUP OF SUEDE, LEATHER, AND CLOTH BOUND BOOKS

THE ROYCROFT PRINTING SHOP, EAST AURORA, NEW YORK

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A GROUP OF SUEDE, LEATHER, AND CLOTH BOUND BOOKS
the roycroft printing shop, east aurora, new york
Including Pig Pen Pete Or Some Chums of Mine, by Elbert Hubbard, stamped leather cover with title page and initials designed by Dard Hunter, 1914; The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, designed by Dard Hunter with stamped suede cover and hand illuminated, 1908; Aucassin and Nicolete, stamped suede cover and hand illuminated, 1899; together with books by John Ruskin, Robert Louis Stevenson and others, published 1901-1910 (9)

Lot Essay

cf. Maria Via and Marjorie B. Searl, Head, Heart and Hand: Elbert Hubbard and the Roycrofters, New York, 1994, p.31 for an illustration of the title page from Pig Pen Pete, and pp. 23-51 for an informative essay by Jean-François Vilain on the Roycroft Printing Shop

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