[Roycroft-inspired | One of 150 Copies] Angels and Ministers of Grace Defend Us

[Shakespeare, William.] DeHaven, Thomas (Compiler). "Angels and ministers of grace defend us." Grand Rapids, MI: The Dean Printing and Publishing Co., 1899. Limited to 150 copies, of which this is #21. A humorous limitation page noting the book was given out for free (thus "assured a circulation") with a lovely opening illuminated initial. George H. Daniels' copy, noted as such ("Friend Daniels") on the limitation page. 

A selection of quotes from the plays of Shakespeare, with printed marginal notes and drawings. Ten tipped-in plates. Brown limp suede with gilt lettering to front cover and striking silk brocade endpapers. Measures approx. 6.5" x 9.25". Fading and spotting to covers, with spine tips and lower rear corner chipped. Spine darkened, inner yapp edge worn/dried out.

A single institutional holding of this title at the Detroit Public Library (OCLC).

"[A Message to Garcia], which had been written as filler in less than an hour, caught the attention of George H. Daniels, who was Passenger Agent of Cornelius Vanderbilt's New York Central Railroad. Daniels telegraphed Hubbard requesting 100,000 copies of the essay in pamphlet form. Hubbard's presses were too small to fill Daniels' order, and after printing three smaller editions, Hubbard gave Daniels and the New York Central permission to print it themselves. ... Without George H. Daniels' intercession, "A Message to Garcia" might well have remained buried, untitled and unmourned, in the columns of The Philistine" ("A Message to Garcia": The Subsidized Hero, Zanger).