Elbert Hubbard: William Morris's greatest imitator
by Walsdorf, Jack
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About This Item
Council Bluffs: Yellow Barn Press, 1999. Edition limited to 150 copies (this, no. 46), 8vo, pp. vii, [5], 24, [2]; 2 portraits, 2 specimen pages tipped in (one a leaf - the title leaf- of Morris's Gothic Architecture, and another from Hubbard's Rip Van Winkle); original Japanese cloth over boards, paper labels on spine and upper cover; fine. Original prospectus laid in. This being the binder Greg Campbell's copy, he has sophisticated it with the specimen leaves. The colophon notes that only copies 1-35 contain the leaves. The leavess in this case are unique: the title page of Gothic Architecture and the colophon of Rip Van Winkle. Walsdorf A33.
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- Title
- Elbert Hubbard: William Morris's greatest imitator
- Author
- Walsdorf, Jack
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Yellow Barn Press
- Place of Publication
- Council Bluffs
- Date Published
- 1999
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