Elbert Hubbard (United States, 1856-1915)
Roycroft (East Aurora, NY, est. 1895)
Wm. H Wise & Co, New York
Little Journeys, 14 Volumes, c. 1916
Arts & Crafts, brown leatherette
Octavo
Notes: A collection of short biographies of notable peoples ‘Little Journeys’ was written by Elbert Hubbard author, philosopher, entrepreneur and founder of Roycroft. Originally rejected by a variety of publishers, Hubbard decided to establish The Roycroft Press to print it himself. The Roycrofters would go on to have a significant impact on the American people and the Arts & Crafts movement.
This complete bound series (Vol. 1-16, 1916) was published posthumously by the Roycrofters as a tribute to Elbert Hubbard and Alice Moore Hubbard who died aboard the RMS Lusitania after it was sunk by a German submarine off the coast of Ireland, Friday May 7, 1915.
Markings: the spines are embossed in iconic Roycroft font with ‘Little Journeys / Hubbard / Vol. [x] / [Title] / [Roycroft mark] / [Wise & Co]; the covers are embossed with an elaborate tree and the authors name.
Condition: Good Condition
For Accuracy: there is some light wear and bumping as expected on objects of this age. They have not all been read as some pages remain uncut, the binding and spines are overall good.
Volumes: Vol 1: Good Men and Great – Publisher’s Preface; Autobiographical (Elbert Hubbard); George Eliot; Thomas Carlyle; John Ruskin; William E Gladstone; J M W Turner; Jonathan Swift; Walt Whitman; Victor Hugo; William Wordsworth; William M Thackeray; Charles Dickens; Oliver; Goldsmith; William Shakespeare; Thomas A Edison Vol 2: Famous Women – Elbert Hubbard II; Elizabeth B Browning; Madame Guyon; Harriet Martineau; Charlotte Bronte; Christina Rossetti; Rosa Bonheur; Madame de Stael; Elizabeth Fry; Mary Lamb; Jane Austen; Empress Josephine; Mary W Shelley Vol 3: American Statesmen – The Little Journeys Camp; George Washington; Benjamin Franklin; Thomas Jefferson; Samuel Adams; John Hancock; John Quincy Adams; Alexander Hamilton; Daniel Webster; Henry Clay; John Jay; William H Seward; Abraham Lincoln Vol 4: Eminent Painters – Michaelangelo; Rembrandt; Rubens; Meissonier; Titan; Anthony Van Dyck; Fortuny; Ary Scheffer; Francois Millet; Joshua Reynolds; Landseer; Gustave Dore Vol 5: English Authors – William Morris; Robert Browning; Alfred Tennyson; Robert Burns; John Milton; Samuel Johnson; Thomas B Macaulay; Lord Byron; Joseph Addison; Robert Southey; Samuel T Coleridge; Benjamin Disraeli Vol 6: Eminent Artists – Raphael; Leonardo; Botticelli; Thorwaldsen; Gainsborough; Velasquez; Corot; Correggio; Bellini; Cellini; Abbey; Whistler – Vol 7: Eminent Orators – Pericles; Mark Antony; Savonarola; Martin Luther; Edmund Burke; William Pitt; Jean Paul Marat; Robert Ingersoll; Patrick Henry; Starr King; Henry Ward Beecher; Wendell Phillips – Vol 8: Great Philosophers – Socrates; Seneca; Aristotle; Marcus Aurelius; Immanuel Kant; Swedenborg; Spinoza; Auguste Comte; Voltaire, Herbert Spencer; Schopenhauer; Henry D Thoreau – Vol 9: Great Reformers – John Wesley; Henry George; Garibaldi; Richard Cobden; Thomas Paine; John Knox; John Bright; Bradlaugh; Theodore Parker; Oliver Cromwell; Anne Hutchinson; Jean Jacques Rousseau – Vol 10: Great Teachers – Moses; Confucius; Pythagoras; Plato; King Alfred; Erasmus; Booker T Washington; Thomas Arnold; Friedrich Froebel; Hypatia; Saint Benedict; Mary Baker Eddy – Vol 11: Great Businessmen – Robert Owen, James Oliver, Stephen Girard, Mayer R Rothschild, Philip D Armour, John J Astor, Peter Cooper, Andrew Carnegie, George Peabody, A T Stewart, H H Rogers, James J Hill – Vol 12: Scientists – Sir Isaac Newton, Galileo, Copernicus, Humbodt, William Herschel, Charles Darwin, Haeckel, Linnaeus, Thomas H Huxley, John Tyndall, Alfred Russel Wallace, John Fiske – Vol 13: Great Lovers – Louis Stevenson & Fanny Osbourne; Josiah & Sarah Wedgwood; William Godwin & Mary Wollstonecraft; Dante & Beatrice; John Stuart Mill & Harriet Taylor; Parnell & Kitty O’Shea; Petrarch & Laura; Dante Gabriel Rossetti & Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal; Balzac & Madame Hanska; Fenelon & Madame Guyon; Ferdinand Lassalle & Helen von Donniges; Lord Nelson & Lady Hamilton – Vol 14: Great Musicians – Richard Wagner, Paganini, Frederic Chopin, Robert Schumann, Sebastian Bach, Felix Mendelssohn, Franz Liszt, Ludwig Van Beethoven, George Handel, Giuseppe Verdi, Wolfgang Mozart, Johannes Brahms
