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American statesmen
Title:
American statesmen
Author:
Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915.
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Edition:
Author's edition.
Publication Information:
East Aurora, N.Y. : The Roycroft Shop, 1908.
Physical Description:
320 pages, 12 unnumbered plates : frontispieces, portraits ; 30 cm + 2 photographs.
General Note:
Cover title.

Colored initials, title and text decorated in color; t.p. and initials designed by Dard Hunter.
Language:
English
Contents:
George Washington.--Benjamin Franklin.--Thomas Jefferson.--Samuel Adams.--John Hancock.-- John Quincy Adams.--Alexander Hamilton.--Daniel Webster.--Henry Clay.--John Jay.--William H. Seward.--Abraham Lincoln.
Local Note:
Rare Book Room holds no. 11 of 15 sets printed on Japan vellum; autographed by Elbert Hubbard; in brown morocco, with gilt stamped panels on upper cover, spine and inside dentelles; marbled endpapers; gilt edges with fore-edge painting of Roycroft campus; in leather box with suede lining.

"Specially bound in the Roycroft Bindery for Elbert Hubbard II, May 1926, Charles W. Youngers, Supt.; Lorenz Schwartz, binder."

2 b&w photographs, showing fore-edge illustration and binding, laid in.
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Book