misattribution of the frontispiece artist on the colophon neatly corrected in ink
along with three cut signatures:
"The Deserted Village was the first Roycroft book designed by W
Signed by Alfred East
large mark in red of the Society of Venetian Printers as colophon
[Fine Binding | Hardy, Maillard, Pilon] Robert the Deuyll E-List 20 misattribution of the frontispiece artistThoms, William J. (editor). Robert the Deuyll, a Romance. Edinburgh: Otto Schulze & Co, 1904. One of 500 copies. One of three volumes in Schulze's Early English Prose Romances series. Illustrated w initials, headpieces, tailpieces by Harold Nelson. Bound in medium brown morocco by Henry Hardy, Leon Maillard, and Gaston Pilon (signed on the front turn in). Curiously, no bindery is mentioned, but the binding likely dates to their time with the