Published by The Clerk's Press, Cleveland, Ohio, 1911., 1911
Seller: Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc., Brecksville, OH, U.S.A.
First Edition
7 1/8x5 1/4', 10pp. Gray paper wrappers with title printed in black on front cover. One of 250 copies. Fine Ransom #11.
Published by Imprinted at The Clerk's Press: Cleveland, Ohio MDCCCCX [1910]. Number 141 of 250 copies on Alexandra Paper (of a total of 275)., 1910
Seller: Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc., Brecksville, OH, U.S.A.
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. "Done into Type by Charles C. Bubb, Clerk in Holy Orders, And Imprinted at his Press in the Parish of Grace Church in Cleveland, November seventeenth, mdccccx." [1910]. 5 1/4 inches x 7 1/8 in., title-page; pp. [1]-13 pp., with the Clerk's Press device, and stamped number on the reverse of p. 13; typographic ornaments; printed in Caslon type, with early style spellings and the long s, on paper with the Alexandra watermark. Sewn into gray paper wrappers with the titling printed in gray on the front cover. The cover corners show creases, wear to spine ends, and to the yapp edges; some age-related tanning to the covers, and the paper, small tan spots to the page fore-edges. With the bookplate of Cleveland, Ohio based book collector, William G. Mather (1857-1951), on the inner front cover. This is a very scarce and fairly early Clerk's Press item. Ransom: Private Presses (1929): Clerk's Press # 10, p. 229.