Three essays
Subtitle: Book-buying : Book-binding : The office of literature
By: By Augustine Birrell
Contributors: Goudy, Frederic W. (Frederic William), 1865-1947, type designer, printer; Goudy, Bertha, 1869-1935, typographer, printer; Morris, William, 1834-1896; Grolier Club
Publisher: Grolier Club
Published: 1924
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Book collecting; Bookbinding; Literature
Notes: "The Committee on publications of the Grolier Club certifies that this ... is one of an edition of 300 copies on Grolier hand-mnade paper, printed by Frederic and Bertha Goudy. It is one of a series of six books done by eminent American printers at the invitation of the Grolier Club."

"The Three Essays by Augustine Birrell have been printed by Frederic and Bertha Goudy at the Village Press, Marlborough-on-Hudson, New York. Composed by Mrs. Goudy with types designed by Mr. Goudy & printed on the Albion hand-press formerly owned and used by William Morris at the Kelmscott Press, Hammersmith, England. Book-buying, and The  Office of Literture are reprinted from Obiter Dicta, published by Duckworth & Co., London. Book-binding is from Men, Women and Books, copyright, 1894, by Charles Scriber's Sons, New York, and is here reprinted with their kind permission. Finished December, 1924."--Colophon.

Rare Book copy (AIGA): Water damaged.