Buy this book on-line The Caxton Brochures. Series A. Nos. 1 to 6The Caxton Society, South Framingham, MA; Pittsfield, MA
Original publisher's brown full leather limp binding with impressed design on the front cover and yapped edges. Six original Caxton brochures in wrappers are bound within the leather binding. The design of the front cover matches that of the interior brochures.' No date, circa 1908. "1908" appears on the spine; brochures are undated. 6" x 9." All pages of each brochure are complete. Pages are unnumbered. Caxton Brochure No. 1 has eighteen pages; No.2, thirty; No. 3, thirty; No. 4, twenty; No. 5, sixteen; and No. 6, twenty. Black and white plates, complete. Each brochure has an advertisement on the inside of the back cover, and beginning with No. 3, there are a few pages of ads in the back. Former ownership bookplate of "Carlin B. Hulen" is tipped in on the front free endpaper. The bookplate has an illustration of two birds and a floral decoration. Pages and covers of the interior brochures and the outer covers and spine are very clean and intact. A Fine copy. "A collection of Little Masterpieces published one each month by the Caxton Society of the United States" is impressed on the front cover. Colophon in the back of some of the brochures: "A collection of Little Masterpieces, published one each month, by the Caxton Society. The aim being to present the most significant essays and short stories by the world's best authors, in a form that will appeal to every person of taste and refinement. The numbers, though varying widely in subject, will be of uniform size, and are a product of the most studious care in design and workmanship." The following list delineates each Caxton Brochure and its constituent essays with title and author. Caxton Brochure No. 1: "Dissertation upon Roast Pig" by Charles Lamb; "Detatched Thoughts on Books and Reading" by Lamb. Brochure No. 2: "Essay on Compensation" by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Brochure No. 3: "Chinese Philosopher's Son" by Oliver Goldsmith. Brochure No. 4: "Evolution of a Bibliophile" by Henry Houssaye; "The Bibliomaniac" by Henry Ward Beecher. Brochure No. 5: "L'Envoi" by Rudyard Kipling. Brochure No. 6: "Poor Richard's Almanack" by Benjamin Franklin.. Book. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Soft cover Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of The Caxton Brochures. Series A. Nos. 1 to 6. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including incunabula, out-of-print books, libri antichi, rare books and livres anciens. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |