The City of Tagaste courtesy of Boice Lydell
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Book and pictures courtesy of Roycroft Historian Boice Lydell
The City of Tagaste
by (Fra Elbertus), Elbert Hubbard, 1900
#451 of 940
Note: The full suede binding shown above is quite uncommon.
This book measures 10 1/8" x 8" and has 21 pages. The text body is in Caslon Old Style and 940 copies were printed on handmade Roycroft paper and bound in 3/4 suede with paper over boards, decorated suede (shown above) or an Alicia binding. Additionally, there was an edition of 50 that was bound 3/4 Levant, specially illuminated, and printed on Imperial Japan Vellum.
