Oct 24, 2013 - Sale 2327

Sale 2327 - Lot 266

Price Realized: $ 875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
(ROYCROFT PRESS.) Hubbard, Elbert. The Complete Writings. 20 volumes. Two pages of original manuscript in Volume 1, three-color initial letters desgined by Dard Hunter, decorative devices throughout, and portrait of each subject etched by either Gaspard or Schneider. Tall 4to, original 3/4 green morocco with raised bands, gilt- and blind-tooling along spines, light visible wear along spines, scattered across boards, and Volume 1 heavily dampstained, visible on rear cover into contents. East Aurora, 1908-15

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copy 389 of 1000 numbered sets of the author's edition containing the manuscript leaves and Signed by Hubbard in each volume. The work that is considered the culmination of Hubbard's ambitions for the Roycroft Press and one of the finest examples of an Arts and Crafts style book production.