[Roycrofters | Fine Binding] Love Ballads of the XVIth Century Private Press Large turn-ins with inlaid bands

Large turn-ins with inlaid bands of green morocco and small red & gilt flowers at corners

Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe (signed on rear turn-in) in full crushed brown morocco with a large geometrical frame of an interlocked rectangle and diamond to the front cover

Tudor roses at the center of the sides and top/bottom

of which this is #102

[Roycrofters | Fine Binding] Love Ballads of the XVIth Century Private Press Large turn-ins with inlaid bandsHere Then is Love Ballads of the XVIth Century. East Aurora, NY: Roycroft Printing Shop, 1897. Limited to 100 copies "specially illumined by hand", of which this is #51. Signed with Elbert Hubbard's initials, as well as by the illuminator M. Johnson. Illuminated throughout with vignettes in watercolor and gilt. The text is set in Antiqua Old Style, with the preface set in Monotype Series #16, printed on Ruisdael handmade paper. Bound in burgundy