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(Private Press) 10 Vols. Roycrofters - Original Suede and Partly Suede Bindings: De Quincey, Thomas. Confessions of an Opium-Eater. (East Aurora, New York), 1898. #373/925 signed in Elbert Hubbard's name. 8vo, original green suede-backed gilt-lettered boards, leather spine label; suede spine fading to brown, some scuffing to suede, minor edge wear to boards. With Lombardic initials embellished in gold. Internally clean. Untrimmed. McKenna 20 - first cover variant. * Rossetti, Dante Gabriel. The House of Life. East Aurora, New York, (1899). #855/925 signed in Elbert Hubbard's name and by the illuminator, Anna McMillan. Small 4to, original three-quarters green suede and gilt-lettered boards, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed; suede fading to brown, corners bumped, occasionally scuffed. With hand-colored and gilt-illuminated title page and initials. Scattered, mostly minor, internal spotting, but otherwise internally crisp and clean. McKenna 43. * Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. Ye Rime of ye Ancient Mariner. East Aurora, New York, 1899. #72/910 signed by Elbert Hubbard (or signed in his name). 8vo, original gilt-lettered pictorial green suede, red silk pastedowns; occasionally slightly scuffed, spine and edges fading to brown. With color initials and 14 illustrations designed by W.W. Denslow. Front hinge just starting to separate at top. Internally clean. Mostly unopened. McKenna 34. * Kipling, Rudyard. The Dipsy Chanty. (East Aurora, New York), (1899). #535/950 signed by Elbert Hubbard (or signed in his name). 8vo, original gilt-lettered pictorial green suede, red silk pastedowns; occasionally slightly scuffed, spine and edges fading to brown. With initials in blue gilt, illuminated by hand, color circle and anchor device on p. 15. Hinges a little stressed. Internally clean. Untrimmed. McKenna 39. * Lamb, Charles. Essays of Elia. East Aurora, New York, 1899. #91/100 signed in Elbert Hubbard's name. 8vo, original gilt-lettered green suede with device in blind by W.W. Denslow, silk embroidered pastedowns; occasionally a little scuffed, fading to tan. With hand-colored initials illuminated in gold, gilt illuminations in text, title and part titles decorated with hand color, hand-colored crown device below colophon. Internally clean. Untrimmed. McKenna 40. * Omar Khayyam. The Rubaiyat. (East Aurora, New York), (1900). #78/1,000 signed in Elbert Hubbard's name and by the illuminator. 8vo, original gilt-lettered red suede, red silk pastedowns; light edge wear. With hand-illuminated initials and borders. Internally clean. Unopened. McKenna 64. * Hubbard, Elbert. Little Journeys to the Homes of Famous Women. (East Aurora, New York), (1898). #224/470 signed by Elbert Hubbard (or in his name). 4to, original gilt-lettered and decorated boards, green suede back and corners, brown calf spine labels, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed; suede fading to brown, occasionally slightly scuffed, some minor spotting to boards. With hand-drawn initials and paragraph marks. Internally clean. McKenna 27, "...The 1898 [Roycrofters] catalog notes [perhaps hyperbolically] that there were about 2,000 [hand drawn] paragraph marks in each volume..." * Hamerton, Philip Gilbert. The Intellectual Life. East Aurora, 1899. #159/960 signed in Elbert Hubbard's name. 4to, original gilt-lettered and decorated boards, green suede boards and corners, brown morocco spine labels, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed; head of spine partly rubbed away, corners rubbed, suede otherwise occasionally scuffed, some minor spotting to occasionally dusty boards, suede fading to brown. Hand-colored decorated title page, hand drawn color initials. Internally clean. McKenna 44. * Hubbard, Elbert. The City of Tagaste. (East Aurora, New York), (1900). #97/940 signed in Elbert Hubbard's name and by the illuminator, Anna Paine. 4to, original three-quarters brown suede and green boards, gilt, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed; corners and spine rubbed, other scattered wear. With fronti