Part 3
The publishers have endeavored to give the story a typographical setting in keeping with the richness of the lines. Five hundred and ninety copies are being printed on smooth Holland hand-made paper, and twenty-five on Tokio Vellum. The copies on Holland paper will be bound in boards covered with antique watered silk; the Vellum copies are bound in like manner save that each will bear on the cover a special water-color design done by the hand of the author.
The price of the five hundred and ninety copies is two dollars each; the Vellum copies five dollars each. Every copy will be numbered and signed by Mrs. Young. Orders are now being recorded and will be delivered on September 1st, numbered in the order received.
THE ROYCROFT PRINTING SHOP, East Aurora, New York.
[Illustration: MODERN ART
Edited by J. M. BOWLES.]
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“If Europe be the home of Art, America can at least lay claim to the most artistically compiled publication devoted to the subject that we know of. This is _Modern Art_.”—_Galignani Messenger (Paris)._
“The most artistic of American art periodicals. A work of art itself.”—_Chicago Tribune._
_Fifty Cents a Number. Two Dollars a Year. Single Copies (back numbers) 50 Cents in Stamps. Illustrated Sample Page Free._
Arthur W. Dow has designed a new poster for _Modern Art_. It is exquisite in its quiet harmony and purely decorative character, with breadth and simplicity in line and mass, and shows the capacity of pure landscape for decorative purposes.—_The Boston Herald._
_Price, 25 Cents in Stamps, Sent Free to New Subscribers to Modern Art._
L. Prang & Company, Publishers. 286 ROXBURY STREET, BOSTON.
We make a specialty of Dekel Edge Papers and carry the largest stock and best variety in the country. Fine Hand-made Papers in great variety. Exclusive Western Agents for L. L. Brown Paper Company’s Hand-mades.
GEO. H. TAYLOR & CO., 207-209 Monroe Street, Chicago, Ill.
_Have you seen the Roycroft Quarterly? The May issue is a “Stephen Crane Number.” 25c. a copy or one dollar a year._
The Roycroft Printing Shop, East Aurora, New York.
THE ROYCROFT PRINTING SHOP at this time desires to announce a sister book to the Song of Songs: which is Solomon’s. It is the Journal of Koheleth: being a Reprint of the Book of Ecclesiastes with an Essay by Mr. Elbert Hubbard. The same Romanesque types are used that served so faithfully and well in the Songs, but the initials, colophon and rubricated borders are special designs. After seven hundred and twelve copies were printed the types were distributed and the title page, colophon and borders destroyed.
IN PREPARATION of the text Mr. Hubbard has had the scholarly assistance of his friend, Dr. Frederic W. Sanders, of Columbia University. The worthy pressman has also been helpfully counseled by several Eminent Bibliophiles.
_Bound in buckram and antique boards. The seven hundred copies that are printed on Holland hand-made paper are offered at two dollars each, but the twelve copies on Japan Vellum at five dollars are all sold. Every book will be numbered and signed by Mr. Hubbard._
The Roycroft Printing Shop, East Aurora, N. Y.
THE RIDE.
Heigh-ho, the world is green today (_Steady, my boy, stand still!_) Old Fool-Heart sings his roundelay Rides not his Love a-down yon way? (_Steady, my boy, stand still,_ _And you shall have your will!_)
You see him do you Open-Eyed, (_Steady, my boy, stand still!_) You beckon him unto your side, In with the spur then, after ride! (_Faster, my lad, oh still,_ _Catch Her a-top the hill!_)
—JOHN MACK, JR.
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