[Rarebooks] FS E. Hubbard Little Journeys-Memorial Ed. 21 vol.

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Brown cloth covered stiff flexible boards, blind stamped in a beautiful Arts 
& Craft design, color leaf frame to tree overlooking sunset and body of 
water. Blind stamp spine. Each volume has issue covered frontispiece, and 
portraits throughout. Red and black lettering to title pages, with Arts & 
Craft frame design, each chapter illuminated letter. TEG, silk marker, 
deckled paged edges. Few hinges have mild rubbing Front covers vary in 
degrees of brightness, all have beautiful color. All text and portraits or 
photos are clean. Few random pale fox areas, mainly to margins. Solidly 
bound, many pages still unopened, few rough cut. The volumes are numbered in 
Roman Numerals from 1 to 14; however there are several volumes with 
different titles and a duplicate numbers totaling 21. This is the full set, 
as published. Volumes are: I. Good Men and Great. Frontispiece of Hubbard. 
Title page two color with
beautiful color border decoration. "This copy of The Memorial Edition in 
fourteen volumes of Elbert Hubbard's Little Journeys to the Homes of the
Great has been specially prepared by the Roycrofters in their shops ~ which 
are in ~ East Aurora ~ Erie County New York". "To My Wife Helen Elbert C. 
Hubbard".  The is a publishers preface followed by an Autobiographical. 
Contents: George Eliot; Walt Whitman; Victor Hugo; Thomas A. Edison; Charles
Dickens; and others. II., Famous Women:  Charlotte Bronte; Jane Austen; Mary 
W. Shelley; Elizabeth B. Browning; Empress Josephine; Elbert Hubbard II;
Mary Lamb; Rosa Bonheur, etc.;  III.,  American Statesman: Chapter on 
"Little Journeys Camp"; Geo. Washington; Thomas Jefferson; Benjamin 
Franklin; Henry Clay; John Quincy Adams; Daniel Webster, etc.;  Time and 
Chance, tipped in frontispiece of Hubbard on board the Lusitania (Hubbard's 
life of John Brown), also tipped in photograph of John Brown. Few pages 
roughly opened; IV., Preachments; Hubbard's inspirational and philosophical 
views, "A Prayer of Gratitude: Men and Women; Plagiarism and Kabojalism; 
Making Pictures; Co-Operation and Nature, etc., tipped in photo frontispiece 
of Hubbard, tipped in photo of Rostrum from where he gave his last talk at 
Roycroft, Roycroft Chapel, and others; IV., Eminent Painters: Michelangelo; 
Rembrandt; Rubens; Meissonieer; Landseer; Ary Scheffer, etc.;  V., English
Authors: (William Morris, frontispiece); Wm. Morris; Rbt. Browning; Benjamin 
Disraeli; Tennyson; Lord Byron; Addison, etc.; VI., Eminent Artists: 
Raphael; Leonardo; Botticelli; Abbey; Whistler; Thorwaldsen, etc.;  VII., 
Eminent Orators: Pericles; Mark Antony; Henry Ward Beecher; Martin Luther; 
Savonarola; Patrick Henry, etc.; VII., On My Way: Tipped in frontispiece of 
"Hubbard in Vaudeville". Hubbard's musings and meanderings: A Little Journey 
to San Diego; The Custer Battlefield; The Age of the Auto; English 
Monuments; The Golden Rule in Prison; See America First; Down a Butte Copper 
Mine, etc., tipped in color caricature of Hubbard; tipped in photos of
Elbert Hubbard and Captain Jack Crawford; The Custer Battlefield; Hubbard at 
the Grave of Tom Paine. XI., Great Businessmen: Robert Owen; James Oliver;
John J. Astor; George Peabody; Mayer A Rothschild, etc., VIII., Great 
Philosophers: Socrates; Marcus Aurelius; Schopenhauer; Kant; Comte; Thoreau;
Aristotle, etc.;  XIII., Great Lovers: Robert Louis Stevenson & Fanny 
Osbourne; Balzac & Madame Hanska;  Lord Nelson & Lady Hamilton; Dante &
Beatrice; William Godwin & Mary Wollstonecraft, etc.;  IX., Great Reformers: 
John Wesley; Oliver Cromwell; Thomas Paine; Bradlaugh; Anne Hutchinson, 
etc..;  IX., Philistia; many writings from Hubbard's publications, 
"Philistine, and Fra". Some titles: The Titanic; The New Infidelity; The 
Perfect Girl; Monasticism; Flunkyism; Theology vs. Social Science; The Dead 
Beat, many others; frontispiece tipped in photography of Hubbard, The 
Publicist. X., Great Teachers: Moses;  Confucius; Erasmus; Booker T.
Washington; Mary Baker Eddy; Saint Benedict, etc.; XI., The Man of Sorrows; 
Hubbard's biographical and historical writings on Jesus; XII.; Great 
Scientists: Sir Isaac Newton; Copernicus; John Fiske; Darwin; Humboldt; John 
Tyndall, etc.;  XII., An American Bible (frontispiece of Hubbard "The 
Philistine"); a modern day "Bible" (book) of practical truths and philosophy
from writings of eight Americans: Franklin; Jefferson; Paine; Lincoln; 
Whitman; Ingersoll; Emerson; Hubbard. With tipped in photo portraits; XIII., 
The Legacy: stories with a moral, including "The Roycroft Dictionary"; The 
Legacy; Pig-Pen Pete; Ali Baba; Respectability. Tipped photo of Hubbard "The
Fra," and tipped color cartoonish illustration of Hubbard, titled "Buster 
Brown"; XIV., Great Musicians: Paganini; Schumann; Mozart; Liszt; Verdi;
Brahms; Beethoven; Wagner, index to rear etc. Each book is approximately 350 
pp, and 8 vo. A beautiful set rare to find complete in such nice condition. 
$350.00 Digitals available
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