Love Ballads of the XVIth Century
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Pictures courtesy of Ernie and Janet Brammer. Comments courtesy of Paul Jackson.
Love Ballads of the XVIth Century
1897
This book measures 8 1/2" x 5" and has
120 pages. The text body is Antiqua Old Style with the preface set in Monotype
Series #16. The book was printed in two colors on Ruisdael paper with a cloth
spine and paper over boards. The press run numbers are unknown but forty copies
were specially hand illuminated. Many of the books have some, if not all,
initial letters illuminated. McKenna states that there were 40 copies specially
hand illumined but this book specifies in hand writing by Elbert Hubbard that
100 copies were specially illumined. Additionally, there is an edition of 80 not
listed in McKenna.
This book was advertised in the July 1897 Philistine. Bound in antique
boards the selling price was $2.00. This book is listed in the 1899 catalog and sold for $2.00