[Roycroft Press- Full Limp Vellum, Hand-Illumined] The Last Ride

East Aurora: Roycroft Press, 1900.

First American edition. Publisher's original limp flexible full vellum with gilt lettering on cover, original beige ties wholly in tact. One of 940 copies specially hand-illumined copies, signed by Hubbard as well as the illuminator, Emma Johnson. Silk mauve front and rear paste-downs. Superbly presented with ten full-page illustrations by Henri Caruchet which are expertly hand-illumined by one of the Roycroft's artists. One of the more visually pleasing set of illustrations in all the Roycroft oeuvre. Warping of vellum covers, nice internally. One tie partially lacking, others foreshortened.

Price: $475.00   Item #4721