Search Results: Titles starting with W from Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts

East Aurora, New York: The Roycrofters, 1908. ONE OF 600 COPIES. 213 x 162 mm. (8 3/8 x 6 1/2"). 157, [3] pp. ATTRACTIVE ETCHED LEATHER BINDING, unsigned but likely by the Roycroft Bindery, upper cover with curving stalks of wheat and titling, raised bands, compartments also with titling, all of the lettering in the distinctive Roycroft style designed by Dard Hunter. With frontispiece portrait of Alice Hubbard by Jules Gaspard; title page, initials, and ornaments designed by Dard Hunter. Rear flyleaf with a (binding?) ticket engraved with decorative frame and the Roycroft insignia, the number "30" written within it in pencil. ◆Light offsetting from ribbon on preface opening, otherwise in virtually mint condition with only the most trivial imperfections. This manifesto on the equality of women and men and the necessity of their working together as equals was written by the wife of Roycroft founder Elbert Hubbard, and produced by that Arts & Crafts community. Alice Moore Hubbard (1861-1915) was… Read More