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Title: The Roycroft books; a catalog and some comment concerning the shop and workers at East Aurora, N.Y
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Roycroft Shop
Subjects: Catalogs, Publishers' -- United States
Publisher: (East Aurora)
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ned by the art-ist who did the work. The volume is espec-ially designed for Lovers, Book-lovers andOthers. Nine hundred & forty copies on Roycroft hand-made paper, bound in plain boards, each $ 5.00Fifty copies on Japan Vellum, each 25.00 Twenty-five copies on Classic Vellum, individ-ually bound in full Levant, hand-tooled, 100.00 No book ever produced at the Roycroft Shophas given its makers a complete satisfaction.The imperfections and lapses are plainly ap-parent to us—we know when we come tardyoff quite as well as the most exacting critic.Still we are not cast down; and although theIdeal continually recedes, yet we know thatwe have made better books this year than last;and next year we propose to make better booksthan we have this. But this book, The LastRide, is an approach to the Ideal; it has theflavor of the Missal, and bears on every pageand part the apparent touch of consecrated la-bor. The Young People who made this bookfound much joy in their work, and this joy4 >
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will be the possession of each one of the Electwho owns a copy. And yet it is not the PerfectBook! CHRISTMAS EVE: By Robert Browning,with a sincere and gracious study of the poemby Mary H. Hull. Price of the book on Boxmoor, hand-illumined, bound in limp chamois, silk lined, is $ 2.00 Fifty copies on Japan Vellum, bound in limp ooze calf, 7.50 MAUD: By Alfred Tennyson at On What-man hand-made paper, hand-illumined, boundplainly in boards, roycroftie. Nine hundred and twenty copies, per volume, $ 2.50One hundred copies, specially illumined, 5.00 Forty copies—Japan Vellum, specially illumined, 10.00 This poem in the Kelmscott edition now com-mands a figure twelve times the original price.Our book is not equal to the William Morrisedition, but it is a move in the right direction.The title page, initials and ornaments used init were designed especially for this volume byMr. Samuel Warner. 5 Bound pertodtcale: BACK NUMBERS OF THE PHILISTINE : One vol-ume in a book. Eleven volumes of The

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