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THE SOCIETY OF THE PHILISTINES

An association of Book Lovers and Folks who Write and Paint. Organized to further Good-Fellowship among men and women who believe in allowing the widest liberty to Individuality in Thought and Expression.

Article xii. Sec. 2. The annual dues shall be one dollar. This shall entitle the member to all the documents issued by the Society, together with one copy of the incomparable Philistine Magazine, monthly, for one year.

Article xix. Sec. 4. The duties of each member shall consist in living up to his highest Ideal (as near as possible) and in attending the Annual Dinner (if convenient).

Address The Philistine, East Aurora, N. Y.

The Philistine is supplied to the trade by the American News Company and its branches. Foreign agencies, Brentano’s, 37 Avenue de l’Opera, Paris; G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 24 Bedford street, Strand, London.

Entered at the Postoffice at East Aurora, New York, for transmission as mail matter of the second class.

COPYRIGHT, 1896, by B. C. Hubbard.

We are printing four hundred copies on Hand-Made Paper of Mr. Hubbard’s Ruskin-Turner Essay. The book will contain twelve full-page photogravures from negatives taken especially for us in the National Gallery at London.

Price, per volume, $5.00. Twenty copies specially illumined by Bertha C. Hubbard; price $10.00 each.

ART AND LIFE, by Vernon Lee.

We have printed a small edition on Japan Vellum of this exquisite Essay and are illuminating the copies by hand. Bound in classic limp vellum, tied with tapes; price, $5.00 per copy. Twelve copies, no two alike, illumined by Mr. W. W. Denslow; also, Ten copies specially illumined by Mr. William B. Faville. Price, $25.00 each.

VOLS. II and III of the Philistine.

Handsomely bound in Buckram and Antique Boards, One Dollar per volume.

VOLUME ONE of the Philistine.

Bound in Antique Boards, price $2.00 each.

OUT OF PRINT:

The Song of Songs,

The Journal of Koheleth.

THE LEGACY.

Mr. Hubbard’s new two-volume novel, entitled THE LEGACY, is now ready for delivery. The book has 450 pages of text on Dickinson’s rough Dekel Edge paper; photogravure portrait of author and illustrations on Japan paper. Bound in bottle green chamois, silk lined. Price $3.00, for the two volumes, express paid.

THE ROYCROFT PRINTING SHOP, EAST AURORA, N. Y.

Philistine Readers

will be interested in a monthly illustrated magazine that is devoted exclusively to literature and its progress in America and England. No person who lays claims to culture and wide reading can afford to be without The Bookman.

To any reader mentioning The Philistine we will send a sample copy free of all charge.

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