Song of Songs
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Pictures courtesy of Paul Jackson
Song of Songs: Which is Solomon's
This was the first book of the Roycroft
Press. This book
measures 9 1/8" x 6" and has 72 pages. The text body
is Antiqua Old Style and 600 copies of this book were printed on Ruisdael
paper.
The binding is paper over boards with a buckram spine. As can be seen in the
pictures, two total different papers were used. Additionally, 12 copies were
printed on Japan Vellum. Both versions have a two-color title page designed by
Bertha Hubbard.
There are ads in the November and December 1895 Philistine which state that
600 copies of this this book will be bound in flexible Japan Vellum and printed on Dickinson paper
and sold for $2.00, but
there are no known copies of this binding. It further states that 12 copies will
be on Japan vellum throughout and they will sell for $5.00. The January,
February and March, 1896 Philistines have the same ad with one exception.
This ad states that the edition of 600 will be bound in antique boards, which is
how we all know the book to be bound. The April 1896 Philistine moves the price
of the regular edition up to $5.00. This book was listed in the 1899 catalog and
was again selling for $2.00