[Roycrofters | Fine Binding] Love Ballads of the XVIth Century E-List 36 medium blue

medium blue

Patterned metallic endpapers

Some rubbing and spotting to edges of the front cover

founder of the Merrymount Press

[Roycrofters | Fine Binding] Love Ballads of the XVIth Century E-List 36 medium blueHere Then is Love Ballads of the XVIth Century. East Aurora, NY: Roycroft Printing Shop, 1897. Limited to 100 copies "specially illumined by hand", of which this is #51. Signed with Elbert Hubbard's initials, as well as by the illuminator M. Johnson. Illuminated throughout with vignettes in watercolor and gilt. The text is set in Antiqua Old Style, with the preface set in Monotype Series #16, printed on Ruisdael handmade paper. Bound in burgundy