The City of Tagaste

East Aurora, NY: Roycroft Shop. Very Good. 1900. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Illumination; This edition is limited to 940 signed copies - this is copy 162. Tthe book has been hand illuminated by Minnie Gardner. This book is in Very Good condition and is lacking the dust jacket and the box. The book has a tan quarter suede leather binding (leather spine and corners) with a leather spine label, gilt lettering on the spine and front cover and what looks like black blotter paper boards. The book covers have noticeable rubbing and wear. There are a couple of small chips of leather removed, and spots of the sued has ground-in finger dirt and rubbing. There are spots of discoloration to both front and rear covers of the book. The endpapers are the same black blotter paper (it might be handmade paper). The text pages are thick, creamy handmade paper with at least two Roycrofters watermarks. There is a tipped on photo of Elbert Hubbard on the frontispiece. There is a previous owner's ink stamped nate and address on the first free page. Several of the text pages have spots of foxing. "His best-known work came after he founded Roycroft, an Arts and Crafts community in East Aurora, New York in 1895. This grew from his private press which he had initiated in collaboration with his first wife Bertha Crawford Hubbard, the Roycroft Press, inspired by William Morris' Kelmscott Press. Although called the "Roycroft Press" by latter-day collectors and print historians, the organization called itself "The Roycrofters" and "The Roycroft Shops"." (from Wikipedia); Signed by Author .