AT THIS TIME THE PROPRIETORS OF THE ROYCROFT PRINTING SHOP, at East Aurora, New York, announce the publication about Christmas time of an exquisite edition of the JOURNAL OF KOHELETH, otherwise the Book of Ecclesiastes, reparagraphed.
Reading edition
With a bit of an introduction by Mr. Elbert Hubbard, whimsical, perhaps, but sincere, wherein the rich quality of the text is commended to those over thirty, and under: with explanations, always reverent, that may be useful.
This book, printed by hand on Dickinson’s hand made paper, will mark an era in the art of printing in America. The edition, limited to 750 copies, will be bound in flexible Japan vellum, wrapped and boxed. Each book numbered, and signed by the editor.
Yes, do you send me a book for my birthday. Not a bargain book, bought from a haberdasher, but a beautiful book, a book to caress—peculiar, distinctive and individual: a book that hath first caught your eye and then pleased your fancy, written by an author with a tender whim—all right out of his heart. We will read it together in the gloaming, and when the gathering dusk doth blur the page we’ll sit with hearts too full for speech and think it over.—Dorothy Wordsworth to Coleridge.
