{"title":"September 2026 List","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHow to order\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUnder the Hill Books is a transactional site: items can be added to the cart and purchased through the checkout. All items will be sold on a \"first come, first serve\" basis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePayment\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll major credit cards and Paypal accepted. Please inquire if further details are needed. Items may be returned for any reason, upon notification by email, within seven days of receipt (return shipping is the responsibility of the customer). Libraries and institutions may apply for deferred billing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTerms of shipping\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll domestic shipping is free via UPS Ground or USPS Ground Advantage (unless otherwise noted), and international shipping via UPS or USPS will be billed at cost.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"roycrofters-fine-binding-limited-to-13-copies-the-philosophy-of-elbert-hubbard","title":"[Roycrofters | Fine Binding | Limited to 13 Copies] The Philosophy of Elbert Hubbard","description":"\u003cp\u003eHubbard, Elbert. \u003cem\u003eThe Philosophy of Elbert Hubbard\u003c\/em\u003e. East Aurora, NY: The Roycrofters, 1916. \u003cstrong\u003eOne of 13 copies printed on Japan vellum\u003c\/strong\u003e, signed and numbered by Elbert Hubbard II, this copy #12. With portrait frontispiece of Hubbard, title-page device printed in black and orange, decorative initials and ornaments throughout, and each page ruled in blue. A posthumous Roycroft collection of Hubbard’s writings, “gathered together by John T. Hoyle and made into a book by Charles J. Rosen and Charles Youngers, craftsmen at the Roycroft Shops,” as stated in the colophon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBound in 3\/4 dark green morocco by the Roycroft bindery with mottled paper-covered boards. Five bands to spine, title to second compartment, and geometric gilt tooling and stippling to remaining four compartments. Mottled endpapers in yellow, rose, green, and cream. Top edge gilt. Measures approx. 5.25\" x 7.75”. Some light fading to spine and edges of corners, along with some wear to edges of paper on the boards.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Under the Hill Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46514939691204,"sku":null,"price":750.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0461\/8328\/4899\/files\/DSC_0001_73fca1d8-8836-46ca-82a7-50ab21130c63.jpg?v=1787522819"},{"product_id":"roycrofters-illuminated-limited-to-40-copies-the-book-of-job","title":"[Roycrofters | Illuminated | Limited to 40 Copies] The Book of Job","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Book of Job. As Translated from the Original by Rabbi Abraham Elzas; with some Comments on the Poem by Elbert Hubbard\u003c\/em\u003e. East Aurora, NY: Roycroft Shop, 1897. One of 350 numbered copies, signed by Elbert Hubbard, this copy #16. With an additional manuscript note stating, \u003cstrong\u003e“Nos. one to forty are specially hand-illuminated.”\u003c\/strong\u003e These specially illuminated copies included watercolor decoration throughout the text, including historiated initials, floral and landscape ornaments, and small marginal vignettes. Several vignettes signed \"CS\", indicating the work of Clara Schlegel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBound in the publisher's binding of white cloth spine and blue paper covered boards with gilt title to spine and front board. Red markings to titling on front cover and spine, likely added by the illuminator (cover decoration was often added to these special copies in Roycroft's early days). Bookplate of Charles Stewart Smith to front pastedown.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMeasures approx. 5.25\" x 8.25\". Some light soiling to cloth spine, with mild toning to boards and a few minor marks to covers; lower corners bumped and worn. Contents clean, with the illumination bright and fresh. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Under the Hill Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46514955649220,"sku":null,"price":525.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0461\/8328\/4899\/files\/DSC_1211_ca69344a-bf34-49e8-990e-0e34fd57e66d.jpg?v=1787522962"},{"product_id":"bruce-rogers-w-a-dwiggins-modern-color","title":"[Bruce Rogers | W.A. Dwiggins] Modern Color","description":"\u003cp\u003eCutler, Carl Gordon \u0026amp; Stephen \u003cem\u003eC.\u003c\/em\u003e Pepper\u003cem\u003e. Modern Color\u003c\/em\u003e. Cambridge: [Printed by Bruce Rogers at the] Harvard University Press, 1923. \u003cspan\u003eWith five illustrations and two tables. A study of color theory and color technique for painters, with chapters on color principles, Cutler’s color scale, reflected light, studio and outdoor painting, and color schemes. In the original brown paper dust jacket printed in red. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eW. A. Dwiggins designed the dust jacket, binding, and interior decorations. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMeasures approx. 5.5\" x 7.5\". Book with rubbing and light soiling \u0026amp; spotting to yellow cloth, some wear to spine ends, corners and lower edges, and mild toning to contents. Internal notes in pen to rear endpapers. Dust jacket darkened and worn, with chipping and small losses at spine ends, corners and folds; spine panel faded and worn, with old internal tape repairs. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne of the AIGA Fifty Books of the Year, with the 1923 being the first year the list was published. In addition to being a scarce Bruce Rogers publication, \u003cspan\u003ean even scarcer survival in jacket, particularly in a copy not ex-library; given the book’s practical use as an art-school and teaching text, copies are more often encountered worn, institutional, or without the fragile jacket.\u003c\/span\u003e Warde 195.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Under the Hill Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46514981765316,"sku":null,"price":175.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0461\/8328\/4899\/files\/DSC_0017_3c0642bc-6878-4f76-a004-54b947878a8a.jpg?v=1787522990"},{"product_id":"roycrofters-the-portage-trail","title":"[Roycrofters] The Portage Trail","description":"\u003cp\u003ePowers, Mabel. \u003cem\u003eThe Portage Trail\u003c\/em\u003e. East Aurora, N.Y., The Roycroft Shops, 1924. 8vo. Pp. 95, [1]. First edition. Illustrated with photographic views of the Chautauqua Lake region. Bound in the publisher’s half leather and paper-covered boards, with pictorial endpapers. A Roycroft production by Mabel Powers, writing under her Seneca name Yehsennohwehs. A history, part local and part legendary, of the old portage route between Lake Erie and Chautauqua Lake, “the route the Indians blazed from Lake Erie to Chautauqua Lake,” told in Iroquois story form.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHoused in a chemise inside a half leather slipcase (worn). Rubbing to leather at spine. Some paper remnants to verso opposite title page.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDue to its fragile nature, a volume rarely seen with its spine intact.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Under the Hill Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46515012632772,"sku":null,"price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0461\/8328\/4899\/files\/DSC_1220.jpg?v=1787523012"},{"product_id":"fine-binding-birmingham-guild-of-handicraft-henry-viii","title":"[Fine Binding | Birmingham Guild of Handicraft] Henry VIII","description":"\u003cp class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\"\u003ePollard, A. F. \u003cem\u003eHenry VIII\u003c\/em\u003e. London, Paris, New York, and Edinburgh: Goupil \u0026amp; Co.; Manzi, Joyant \u0026amp; Co., successors, 1902. Limited to 1150 copies printed on fine paper, of which this is #139. With color frontispiece portrait of Henry VIII and numerous full-page plates, many after Holbein and other Tudor portraits. \u003cspan class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchor\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBound in full sienna brown sealskin by the Birmingham Guild of Handicraft (signed “B·G·H” in gilt on the rear turn-in), with covers ruled in gilt with corner dots and small leaf tools extending from the hinges in the style of Douglas Cockerell. Spine with five raised bands, gilt-lettered in two compartments and gilt-tooled in the remaining compartments with leaf clusters and curved rules. Gilt-ruled borders with dark green endpapers, top edge gilt. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Birmingham Guild of Handicraft was founded in 1890 and became one of the important English Arts and Crafts workshops, producing metalwork, furniture, printing, and bookbindings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMeasures approx. 10\" x 13\". Spotting to covers and light rubbing to edges, corners bumped. Darkened at spine, with some wear\/creasing to compartments and rubbing at spine bands. Some foxing to preliminaries and scattered foxing elsewhere, heaviest at the limitation page and frontis. Offsetting to endpapers. 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Gere, all delicately hand-colored in this copy. Extra-illustrated with six inserted tissue-covered chromolithographic plates, primarily of saints. \u003cspan class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchor\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBound in full brown crushed morocco by Ramage with central gilt IHS monogram, spine with raised bands and gilt title. Elaborate gilt-rolled turn-ins with light pastel marbled endpapers; all edges gilt. (\"IHS\" is the traditional Christogram, derived from the first three letters of the Greek name of Jesus and long used as a devotional emblem.)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBookplate of Henry Fane Haylett Sewell, dated 1906, to front pastedown. Measures approx. 4.5\" x 6.5\". Some minor rubbing to joints, edges, and corners. Hinges and joints sound. Small chip to upper spine tip. Some sporadic pencil annotations in the text.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Under the Hill Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46515119194308,"sku":null,"price":375.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0461\/8328\/4899\/files\/DSC_0167_ba6d065b-b505-48bf-9e0d-732ea514926d.jpg?v=1788538999"},{"product_id":"grolier-club-rubaiyat-of-omar-khayyam","title":"[Grolier Club] Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam","description":"\u003cp\u003eOmar Khayyám. \u003cem\u003eRubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, the Astronomer-Poet of Persia\u003c\/em\u003e. Rendered into English verse by Edward Fitzgerald. New York, The Grolier Club, 1885. One of 150 copies printed on Japan paper, with two additional copies printed on vellum. Illustrated with chromolithographic initials and decorations by Owen Jones; cover design by George Ashdown Audsley. Original wrappers with robin's egg blue, dark turquoise, white, and gold decorative floral pattern to covers and spine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMeasures approx. 6.25\" x 9\".\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eWrappers with very light wear to edges, rubbing and creases to spine, wear to spine tips. Old pencil notes to limitation page. 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First Random House trade edition, following the 1928 signed limited edition, which was the first book issued under the Random House imprint. Illustrated throughout by Rockwell Kent, with illustrated title-page, decorative initials, and vignette illustrations throughout the text. \u003cstrong\u003eSigned by Kent on preliminary blank.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBound in full deep red calf by Sangorski \u0026amp; Sutcliffe for Marshall Field and Company, covers gilt with outer roll border, corner floral tools, gilt title to front cover, and double-ruled central panels. Five bands to spine with title and author to onlaid faded second and third compartments, remaining compartments with floral gilt tooling. Gilt-ruled turn-ins with blue, red, and gold marbled endpapers; all edges gilt. 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Large paper copy, limited to 150 copies printed on Dutch handmade paper, of which this is #72. Illustrated throughout with plates, portraits and facsimiles. Volume I in Pollard’s “Books About Books” series. A broad historical survey of book collecting and famous libraries, from monastic and Renaissance collectors through Grolier, De Thou, Peiresc, Bodley, Cotton, and other major figures in the history of private and institutional collecting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\"\u003eBound in dark green morocco by The Monastery Hill Bindery (signed in gilt on the rear turn-in). Covers tooled in gilt with multiple concentric rectangular rules, repeated on both boards. Spine with five raised bands, title and author to second and third compartments, the remaining compartments with matching nested rectangular tooling. Wide gilt-ruled turn-ins with green watered silk doublures and endleaves, top edge gilt.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\"\u003eMeasures approx. 6\" x 9.25\". Spine slightly faded from green toward olive. A few minor spots of rubbing to edges and corners. Light horizontal scratch (1.5\") to rear cover.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Under the Hill Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46531970465988,"sku":null,"price":850.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0461\/8328\/4899\/files\/DSC_0129_494f6525-9a46-452e-8963-2dc53bb18cef.jpg?v=1787537816"},{"product_id":"fine-binding-monastery-hill-bindery-large-paper-copy-book-plates","title":"[Fine Binding | Monastery Hill Bindery | Large Paper Copy] Book-Plates","description":"\u003cp\u003eHardy, W. J. \u003cem\u003eBook-Plates\u003c\/em\u003e. London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner \u0026amp; Co., 1893. Large paper copy, limited to 150 copies printed on Dutch handmade paper, of which this is #72. Illustrated throughout with bookplate examples. Volume II in Pollard’s “Books About Books” series. A useful late 19th-century account of ex-libris design and collecting, with chapters on armorial, pictorial, allegorical, English, French, German and American bookplates, as well as inscriptions and collecting practices.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBound in dark green morocco by The Monastery Hill Bindery (signed in gilt on the rear turn-in). Covers tooled in gilt with multiple concentric rectangular rules, repeated on both boards. Spine with five raised bands, title and author to second and third compartments, the remaining compartments with matching nested rectangular tooling. Wide gilt-ruled turn-ins with green watered silk doublures and endleaves, top edge gilt. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMeasures approx. 6\" x 9.25\". Spine slightly faded from green toward olive. A few minor spots of rubbing to edges and corners. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Under the Hill Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46531972563140,"sku":null,"price":800.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0461\/8328\/4899\/files\/DSC_0120_cc7f29f6-a67f-4b01-93e5-1362bd84b18b.jpg?v=1787537770"},{"product_id":"fine-binding-monastery-hill-bindery-large-paper-copy-books-in-manuscript","title":"[Fine Binding | Monastery Hill Bindery | Large Paper Copy] Books in Manuscript","description":"\u003cp\u003eMadan, Falconer. \u003cem\u003eBooks in Manuscript: A Short Introduction to Their Study and Use, with a Chapter on Records\u003c\/em\u003e. London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner \u0026amp; Co., 1893. Large paper copy, limited to 150 copies printed on Dutch handmade paper, of which this is #72. Illustrated throughout with manuscript examples. Volume III in Pollard’s “Books About Books” series. Madan’s introduction to manuscript books, including materials, scripts, abbreviations, illumination, dating, collation, cataloguing, and the use of manuscripts as historical evidence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBound in dark green morocco by The Monastery Hill Bindery (signed in gilt on the rear turn-in). Covers tooled in gilt with multiple concentric rectangular rules, repeated on both boards. Spine with five raised bands, title and author to second and third compartments, the remaining compartments with matching nested rectangular tooling. Wide gilt-ruled turn-ins with green watered silk doublures and endleaves, top edge gilt. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMeasures approx. 6\" x 9.25\". Spine slightly faded from green toward olive. A few minor spots of rubbing to edges and corners. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Under the Hill Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46531974463684,"sku":null,"price":700.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0461\/8328\/4899\/files\/DSC_0139_6a4b3896-19ab-432d-9628-1435157265db.jpg?v=1787537852"},{"product_id":"fine-binding-monastery-hill-bindery-large-paper-copy-early-printed-books","title":"[Fine Binding | Monastery Hill Bindery | Large Paper Copy] Early Printed Books","description":"\u003cp\u003eDuff, E. Gordon. \u003cem\u003eEarly Printed Books\u003c\/em\u003e. London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner \u0026amp; Co., 1893. Large paper copy, limited to 150 copies printed on Dutch handmade paper, of which this is #72. Illustrated throughout with examples of early printing. Volume IV in Pollard’s “Books About Books” series. Duff’s first book, and an important early account of incunabula and the beginnings of printing, with chapters on block books, Gutenberg, the spread of printing, early English printing, Caxton, Wynkyn de Worde, early bookbinding, and the description and collecting of early printed books.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBound in dark green morocco by The Monastery Hill Bindery (signed in gilt on the rear turn-in). Covers tooled in gilt with multiple concentric rectangular rules, repeated on both boards. Spine with five raised bands, title and author to second and third compartments, the remaining compartments with matching nested rectangular tooling. Wide gilt-ruled turn-ins with green watered silk doublures and endleaves, top edge gilt. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMeasures approx. 6\" x 9.25\". Spine slightly faded from green toward olive. A few minor spots of rubbing to edges and corners. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Under the Hill Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46531976265924,"sku":null,"price":700.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0461\/8328\/4899\/files\/DSC_0110_0ce5a360-997e-4752-9354-fbd83de215fc.jpg?v=1787537608"},{"product_id":"fine-binding-monastery-hill-bindery-large-paper-copy-early-illustrated-books","title":"[Fine Binding | Monastery Hill Bindery | Large Paper Copy] Early Illustrated Books","description":"\u003cp\u003ePollard, Alfred W. \u003cem\u003eEarly Illustrated Books: A History of the Decoration and Illustration of Books in the 15th and 16th Centuries\u003c\/em\u003e. London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner \u0026amp; Co., 1893. Large paper copy, limited to 150 copies printed on Dutch handmade paper, of which this is #72. Illustrated throughout with facsimiles and numerous text illustrations, some printed in red and black. Volume V in Pollard’s “Books About Books” series. Pollard’s account of the decoration and illustration of early printed books, with particular attention to woodcut illustration, borders, initials, printer’s devices, and the relation between manuscript decoration and the design of early printed books.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBound in dark green morocco by The Monastery Hill Bindery (signed in gilt on the rear turn-in). Covers tooled in gilt with multiple concentric rectangular rules, repeated on both boards. Spine with five raised bands, title and author to second and third compartments, the remaining compartments with matching nested rectangular tooling. Wide gilt-ruled turn-ins with green watered silk doublures and endleaves, top edge gilt. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMeasures approx. 6\" x 9.25\". Spine slightly faded from green toward olive. A few minor spots of rubbing to edges and corners. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Under the Hill Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46531979903172,"sku":null,"price":700.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0461\/8328\/4899\/files\/DSC_0092_431378bf-2336-4c03-8f12-20448a1fe6d8.jpg?v=1787537656"},{"product_id":"fine-binding-monastery-hill-bindery-large-paper-copy-the-binding-of-books","title":"[Fine Binding | Monastery Hill Bindery | Large Paper Copy] The Binding of Books","description":"\u003cp\u003eHorne, Herbert P. \u003cem\u003eThe Binding of Books: An Essay in the History of Gold-Tooled Bindings\u003c\/em\u003e. London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner \u0026amp; Co., 1894. Large paper copy, limited to 150 copies printed on Dutch handmade paper, of which this is #72. Illustrated throughout with plates of historically significant bindings (all the way up to T.J. Cobden-Sanderson). Volume VI in Pollard’s “Books About Books” series. A focused essay on the history of gold-tooled bindings, with chapters on the craft of binding, early Italian work, French bindings, English bindings, and the development of style and ornament.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBound in dark green morocco by The Monastery Hill Bindery (signed in gilt on the rear turn-in). Covers tooled in gilt with multiple concentric rectangular rules, repeated on both boards. Spine with five raised bands, title and author to second and third compartments, the remaining compartments with matching nested rectangular tooling. Wide gilt-ruled turn-ins with green watered silk doublures and endleaves, top edge gilt.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMeasures approx. 6\" x 9.25\". Spine slightly faded from green toward olive. Front upper corner bumped and slightly worn. Some minor spots of rubbing to edges and corners. Small (0.75\") closed horizontal crack to top spine band (likely bumped at some point).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Under the Hill Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46531983409348,"sku":null,"price":950.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0461\/8328\/4899\/files\/DSC_0100_f49356cc-2146-4a0d-bbef-ed9788ea37ab.jpg?v=1787537704"},{"product_id":"fine-binding-zaehnsdorf-pysche","title":"[Fine Binding | Zaehnsdorf] Pysche","description":"\u003cp\u003eShadwell, Thomas. \u003cem\u003ePsyche: A Tragedy, as it is now Acted at Their Majesties Theatre in Dorset-Garden\u003c\/em\u003e. London: Printed by J. M. for H. Herringman, and sold by R. Bentley, 1690. Second edition. Shadwell’s adaptation of Molière’s Psyché, first printed in 1675 and here reissued after Shadwell had replaced Dryden as Poet Laureate. The title page identifies him as “Tho. Shadwell, Laur.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\"\u003eFull light blue morocco by Zaehnsdorf, covers elaborately gilt with double fillet borders, densely tooled cornerpieces and side ornaments, and inlaid red morocco medallions at the corners. Spine with five raised bands, title and author to second and third compartments, remaining compartments tooled with fleurons and small red morocco inlays. Gilt-rolled turn-ins, marbled endpapers; all edges gilt. Bookplate of John A. Spoor to front pastedown.\u003cspan class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchor\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSpine faded to light brown, with some rubbing to edges, spine, and spine tips. Corners lightly worn. Text browned and spotted. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFolger notes that the work was produced at Dorset Garden and is “sometimes considered the first English opera,” with vocal music by Matthew Locke and instrumental interludes by Giovanni Battista Draghi, though this printed text does not include the music.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Under the Hill Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46531993895108,"sku":null,"price":1100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0461\/8328\/4899\/files\/DSC_0075_3d813e43-f7bb-4638-88ff-16454db75882.jpg?v=1787522714"},{"product_id":"fine-binding-sangorski-sutcliffe-much-loved-books","title":"[Fine Binding | Sangorski \u0026 Sutcliffe] Much Loved Books","description":"\u003cp class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\"\u003eBennett, James O’Donnell. \u003cem\u003eMuch Loved Books: Best Sellers of the Ages.\u003c\/em\u003e New York: Liveright, Inc., 1932. Black and Gold Library edition. Title-page printed in black and brown. Bennett’s collected essays on enduringly popular books, first printed serially in the \u003cem\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/em\u003e under the title \u003cem\u003eBest Sellers of the Ages\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cspan class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchor\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBound in full dark blue morocco by Sangorski \u0026amp; Sutcliffe (on lower front turn-in) for Duttons (signed on lower rear turn-in), covers with single gilt rule border and small gilt square corner tools. Spine with five raised bands, title and author to second and third compartments, the remaining compartments with gilt-ruled panels and small geometric tools. Gilt-rolled turn-ins with marbled endpapers, all edges gilt.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMeasures approx. 6\" x 8.5\". Spine lightly faded, wear to upper spine tip, some rubbing to spine bands. Corners lightly bumped. Housed in its original fleece-lined marbled paper slipcase.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Under the Hill Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46559551815876,"sku":null,"price":175.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0461\/8328\/4899\/files\/DSC_0087_d746ad50-c116-4074-938a-9ba85f14e780.jpg?v=1787522681"},{"product_id":"hand-colored-the-comedy-of-a-midsummer-night-s-dream","title":"[Hand Colored] The Comedy of A Midsummer Night’s Dream","description":"\u003cp class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\"\u003eShakespeare, William. \u003cem\u003eThe Comedy of A Midsummer Night’s Dream\u003c\/em\u003e. London: Freemantle \u0026amp; Co., 1901. Specially decorated throughout for children and with an introduction by Mrs. Herbert Railton (Fanny Railton). Title-page printed in red and black. With illustrated half-title, frontispiece, illustrations throughout, and chapter headings, \u003cstrong\u003eall lovingly hand-colored\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003cspan class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchor\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher’s tan pictorial cloth, front cover stamped in green and black with fairy seated on a mushroom before a moon and toadstools, lettered above and below; spine lettered in black. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMeasures approx. 7.25\" x 8.75\". Cloth soiled with some light wear to edges, with rubbing and scratching to cover illustration, corners bumped and worn, and some minor wear to spine tips. Front cover slightly bowed; some gatherings a bit shaken and showing at gutters. Contents with scattered foxing, heaviest to preliminaries and margins.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Under the Hill Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46569070493892,"sku":null,"price":275.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0461\/8328\/4899\/files\/DSC_0039_ebfe86a4-cc9a-43b9-9ebe-2e10b366c121.jpg?v=1787701584"},{"product_id":"fine-binding-hillbourne-farms-bindery-esther-a-young-mans-tragedy-together-with-the-love-sonnets-of-proteus","title":"[Fine Binding | Hillbourne Farms Bindery] Esther: A Young Man's Tragedy","description":"\u003cp\u003eBlunt, Wilfred Scawen. \u003cem\u003eEsther: A Young Man's Tragedy; Together with the Love Sonnets of Proteus\u003c\/em\u003e. Boston: Copeland and Day, 1895. One of 500 copies on Dutch handmade paper, with title page, borders, and initial letters designed by Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBound in full grey blue full grained morocco by the Hillbourne Farms Bindery (signed “Hillbourne” on the front turn-in). Covers with double fillet border enclosing a large floral spray of branching stems, leaves, and small blossoms. Spine with five raised bands, title and author to second and third compartments, the remaining compartments tooled with two small flowers and stems. Gilt ruled turn-ins, with small repeated leaf tools at the corners. Grey-blue paper endpapers, front pastedown with the bookplate of Samuel Treat Armstrong. All edges gilt.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMeasures approx. 5.75\" 7\". Corners, spine tips, and bands with some light rubbing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eHillbourne Farms, also known as Hillbourne Club, was the Katonah, New York, country establishment associated with Dr. Samuel Treat Armstrong, \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003ea physician, former U.S. Marine Hospital Service officer, and Spanish-American War army surgeon. A Town of Bedford preservation report lists “Hillbourne Club (Epilepsy) Sanitarium” among significant early Katonah sites, circa 1910 (\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bedfordny.gov\/DocumentCenter\/View\/286\/Katonah-Draft-Report-April-26-2021-PDF?utm_source=chatgpt.com\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eTown of Bedford\u003c\/a\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContemporary references show Hillbourne as a club and activity setting as well as a medical one: \u003cem\u003eWoman’s Who’s Who of America\u003c\/em\u003e gives Hillbourne Farms as the address of Armstrong’s daughter Clairette Papin Armstrong and lists her recreations as music, athletics, tennis, squash, skating, and riding (\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Page:Woman%27s_who%27s_who_of_America,_1914-15.djvu\/43\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eWikisource\u003c\/a\u003e). Bookbinding was also taught at Hillbourne as part of its broader arts and crafts activity. Jane Lampton “Jean” Clemens, Mark Twain’s youngest daughter, spent fifteen months at Hillbourne Farms beginning in 1906; later documentation notes her decorative wood carving, a craft activity then considered therapeutic for epilepsy (\u003ca rel=\"noopener\" class=\"decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/twainsgeography.com\/node\/10673?utm_source=chatgpt.com\"\u003eTwain’s Geography\u003c\/a\u003e; \u003ca rel=\"noopener\" class=\"decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/marktwainstudies.com\/jane-lampton-jean-clemens\/?utm_source=chatgpt.com\"\u003eCenter for Mark Twain Studies\u003c\/a\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Under the Hill Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46611285377220,"sku":null,"price":950.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0461\/8328\/4899\/files\/DSC_0148_f589d65c-bf73-491a-9dee-53c78d631206.jpg?v=1788538962"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0461\/8328\/4899\/collections\/DSC_0023_4990c669-63ab-4d4b-98c2-07a9ad7f8780.jpg?v=1789494497","url":"https:\/\/www.underthehillbooks.com\/collections\/e-list-september-2026.oembed","provider":"Under the Hill Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}