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2 Volumes. Each volume illustrated with hand-illuminated initials and a hand-illuminated title page; Volume Eight with a frontispiece portrait from a sketch with tissue-guard. [8], 103-124, [2] pp.  [x], 157, [1] pp. 21x15.7 cm. (8¼x6¼") brown and green ooze leather, with brown leather cover labels titled in gilt, top edges gilt all other edges uncut. Robert Schumann is no. 470 of 940 handprinted and illuminated copies. Volume Eight is no. 929 of 947.

Two Roycrofter's publications from the library of compose John Phillips Sousa, the American March King. Robert Schumann is inscribed  "to Sousa himself..." by author and publisher Elbert Hubbard. Volume Eight is inscribed to Sousa from performers Blanche Duffield and Bertha Bucklin, it is also signed at the limitation by Hubbard and illuminator Mae Sibley.