modeled leather-bound books, Boxmoor, Roycroft paper 8⅜ h × 6½ w × 1¼ d in (21 × 17 × 3 cm) 8 h × 6 w × ¼ d in (20 × 15 × 1 cm)
Lot is comprised of Woman's Work: Being an Inquiry and an Assumption by Alice Hubbard and The Last Ride by Robert Browning. Binding, title page, ornaments, and initials of Woman's Work designed by Dard Hunter with sepia frontispiece depicting a portrait of Alice Hubbard by Jules Gaspard. Signed to frontispiece ‘Gaspard’. Paper maker's label with orb and cross mark to one page. This work is from the edition of 600 printed by The Roycroft Shop, East Aurora, New York. Binding of The Last Ride designed by Samuel Warner and executed by May Rosina Prat. Hand-illumined by Fanny Stiles. Gilt artist's initials to inside of back cover ‘M.R.P’. Signed and numbered to limitation page ‘110 Elbert Hubbard illumined by Fanny Stiles’. This work is number 110 from the edition of 940 printed by The Roycroft Shop, East Aurora, New York. Sold with a slipcase.
literature: Head, Heart and Hand: Elbert Hubbard and the Roycrofters, Via and Searl, pg. 35 illustrates one example On a High Shelf: Roycroft Books and Bookmakers, Ogle, ppg. 192, 194-195
This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.