Sonnets of Shakespeare Illustrated & Signed by Elbert Hubbard 1899 Limited Edition. Previously owned by San Francisco Millionaire William Bourn.
East Aurora, New York:: Roycroft Press, 1899. Limited edition.
Hardcover. Large Octavo, 169pp with hand-colored illuminated woodcut
initials. Orig. tan
half-suede & hard board camel covers, origional gilt title label on
spine.
Lightly rubbed at edges o/w very good condition. One of 980 numbered
copies, this being #82 with the signature of Elbert Hubbard. A very scarce Roycroft
item in unusually good condition. Roycroft Watermarked paper. Brown
bookmark ribbon.
Near Fine condition.
Provenance: William
B. Bourn, California Millionaire of the Bourn Mansion and Filoli
Estates. His initials and the date May 31st, 1906 are handwritten in
one of the front e.p.s., and on the front inside board is a bookplate
with FI LO LI and three cherubs representing "Fight, Love, Live": Mr.
Bourn's motto; and the initials AMB and WBB.
