[Fine Binding | Roycrofters] Virginibus Pueresque Unavailable Crawford (translator)

Crawford (translator)

spines with a touch of fading

and imitation of medieval decoration extending from spine

The Serendipity Press

[Fine Binding | Roycrofters] Virginibus Pueresque Unavailable Crawford (translator)Stevenson, Robert Louis. Virginibus Puerisque, An Essay in Four Parts. East Aurora, NY: The Roycrofters, 1903. Hand illumined title page, initial letters, and colophon. Printed on Japan vellum. Bound in light brown full grained modeled morocco with central image of a man and woman in profile on a field of solid gilt tooling (since discolored at the edges), with a modeled design of leaves and fruit surrounding. The author and title have been tooled in