A Lodging for the Night, Being a Tale Concerning One of Life's Lesser Hardships, Commonly Called Trouble
A Lodging for the Night, Being a Tale Concerning One of Life's Lesser Hardships, Commonly Called Trouble
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Title: A Lodging for the Night, Being a Tale Concerning One of Life's Lesser Hardships, Commonly Called Trouble
Author: Stevenson, Robert Louis
Publication: East Aurora, Erie County, New York: Printed by the Roycrofters at their Shop, 1902.
Description: Illuminated Roycrofters edition of Robert Louis Stevenson's historical short story about François Villon, the French medieval poet and thief. Signed by Elbert Hubbard and illuminator Hattie Tehoonte, with a Roycroft symbol drawn below her signature. No. 4 of 100 illumined copies on Japan Vellum paper. Illuminated border on title page and illuminated headpieces for each chapter. Frontispiece portrait of the author. Bound in half brown leather, decorated to give a crackled appearance, with marbled paper over boards, spine with two raised bands and gilt with floral designs and lettering, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, and ribbon marker. 8 x 5.5 inches; [8], 44. [2] pages, [1] leaf of plates. From the collection of Arthur Williams Hall (1873–1952) of Massachusetts, bibliophile and manufacturer of laboratory equipment, with his neat pencil notes on the front free endpaper; thence by descent through three generations. Binding with mild wear and faded gilt on the spine, the interior crisp and clean. Near Fine. Hubbard was known to have authorized employees to sign books for him in his absence; we cannot establish whether this book was signed by him or in his name.
