The Bigotry Bacillus
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 Note the slight offsetting of the hand drawn initial on the recto to the verso which is fairly common in Roycroft illumined books. |
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Book and pictures courtesy of Robert rust. Comments by Paul Jackson.
The Bigotry Bacillus
by Elbert Hubbard 1898
This book measures 9" x 5 3/4" and has 17 pages. The body of the text is in Old Style Antiqua printed on laid paper with no water marks. The book is bound in brown paper wraps. The colophon states that it was printed in February 1899 but the copyright is 1898. The initials are hand drawn and partially illumined.