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Little Journeys To the Homes of Eminent Painters, Book Two
by Elbert Hubbard
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very good +
- Seller
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Gridley, California, United States
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About This Item
East Aurora, NY: The Roycrofters, 1912. Miriam Edition. Quarter leather. Very good +. A very good plus edition crafted by the Roycrofters with traditional bookbinding and papermaking methods. White quarter leather spine under heavy gray paper boards with fine gilt stamping on front cover and gray paper spine. Some loss of paper on spine at head and tail. Heavy wear to corners. Deckle page edges. Top edge gilt. Frontis with loose tissue guard. Illustrated with plate of the artists, tissue intact. Accent motifs around some of the text. 148 pp. plus colophon. Octavo, 6 x 8 inches tall. Best known as the the initiator of the Arts and Crafts community of Roycroft, Hubbard was an anarchist, a socialist, and followed a philosophy of mental and spiritual freedom. Some of his works, which include Jesus Was an Anarchist and a A Message to Garcia, were listed as offensive by the US government. He and his wife died aboard the Lusitania.
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- Bookseller
- Uncommon Works
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 481
- Title
- Little Journeys To the Homes of Eminent Painters, Book Two
- Author
- Elbert Hubbard
- Format/Binding
- Quarter leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Miriam Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Roycrofters
- Place of Publication
- East Aurora, NY
- Date Published
- 1912
- Keywords
- arts and crafts movement, anarchism, socialism, existentialism, self-sufficiency, Emerson, ruskin, tolstoy, thoreau, Whitman, art artists
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art, Architecture & Music;
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About Uncommon Works
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Glossary
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Colophon
- The colophon contains information about a book's publisher, the typesetting, printer, and possibly even includes a printer's...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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