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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Henry David Thoreau, The Essay on Friendship, 1903

Henry David Thoreau

The Essay on Friendship, 1903
East Aurora, NY: The Roycrofters
According to McKenna, the limitation of this large-format edition of Friendship was "noted in the 1905/06 catalog as "a few copies".
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Henry David Thoreau, The Essay on Friendship, 1903
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Tall quarto. 36pp. Printed on Roycroft handmade paper, the book is illuminated with two large initials by Samuel Warner accented in gilt, and a hand-colored colophon device. McKenna describes the...
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Tall quarto. 36pp. Printed on Roycroft handmade paper, the book is illuminated with two large initials by Samuel Warner accented in gilt, and a hand-colored colophon device. McKenna describes the book as "one of the handsomest books of the press," and very clearly a completely separate publication from the smaller format edition Hubbard and company also produced in 1903. Bound by the Roycroft bindery in red morocco-backed mottled boards with corners finished in morocco, gilt spine titles and ornamentation. T.e.g. Upper corners a trifle rubbed, few small spots, otherwise about fine.  (McKenna 87). 
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