Here Then is that Helpful as well as Ennobling Discourse Entitled The Essay on Friendship
by Elbert Hubbard
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Wilmington, Delaware, United States
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About This Item
East Aurora, New York: The Roycrofters, MCMIII. [1903]. Thin folio. 36pp. Silk ribbon marker. Brown suede and papered boards with sunning, scattered stains and small scuffs, half inch loss at heel of spine. Binding good only; internally, clean and very good.
One of an unknown quantity of tall copies of this appealing presentation of Henry David Thoreau's essay on friendship.
Two initials and the signed colophon were illumined by Grace Fournier. Fournier was the daughter of Alexis Jean Fournier (1865-1948), the "court painter" of the Roycrofters who is extensively profiled in Head, Heart, and Hand: Elbert Hubbard and the Roycrofters.
The book's ornaments were designed by Samuel Warner; the typography by Newell White; the presswork by George Parker. Provenance, in light pencil: "M.L. Goss. 1906." -perhaps a relative of Frederick Llewellyn Goss (1847-1915) of The Goss Printing Company of Chicago.
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- Ian Brabner, Rare Americana (ABAA)
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- 3731916
- Title
- Here Then is that Helpful as well as Ennobling Discourse Entitled The Essay on Friendship
- Author
- Elbert Hubbard
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Ian Brabner, Rare Americana (ABAA)
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Wilmington, Delaware
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Our inventory encompasses a broad spectrum of collecting interests, with a special focus on 18th- and 19th-century American history, including African-American history, women's history, and unique or unusual materials documenting the American experience. In our stock, you will also find rare pamphlets, documents, letters and correspondence, journals, diaries, significant archives, as well as original art, graphics, and photographs.
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