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Hubbard, Elbert Elbert Hubbard's Scrap Book Containing the Inspired and Inspiring Selections, Gathered During a Life Time of Discriminating Reading for His Own Use
New York Wm. H. Wise & Co.; Roycroft Distributors 1923 First edition thus Wraps Very Good
Hubbards collection of literature, prose, quotations, letters, and essays from great men and women. Covering an array of subjects: Business; Law; Slavery; Conversation; Craftmanship; Music; Ancestry; Good & Evil; Flowers; Life; Friendship; Humanity; Civil War, etc. As written by the great thinkers, writers and geniuses of all time: "Knowledge is essential to conquest; only according to our ingnorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment". Anne Besant; "The religions of the world are the ejaculations of a few imaginative men". Emerson; "It is well for a man to respect his own vocation whatever it is, and to think himself bound to uphold it, and to claim for it the respect it deserves". Dickens; "It suffices not that beauty should keep solitary festival in life; it has to become a festival of every day". Materlinck; "No man is worht his salt wo is not ready at all times to risk his body, to risk his well being, to risk his life, in a great cause". Theodore Roosevelt; and many others from: Samuel Johnson; Washington Irving; George Washington letter to his wife); :The Indians," by Charles Sprague; Gibbon; Alfred Noyes; Shelley; Anatole France; George Eliot; Michaelangelo; Kipling; Thomas Nelson Page; Oscar Wilde; Walt Whitman; Goethe; Israel Zangwill; Robert Louis Stevenson; Darwin; Daniel Webster, etc. Tie wraps, brown grainy paper over cloth. Red title panel and decoration below, cloth over paper under tie. Lower corner 2' by 1 1/2 inch chip exposing cloth, mild creases to corners, bumping of edges. Small tear to corner of spine cloth. Rear edges small chips exposing cloth. Portrait of Hubbard in his workshop, frontispiece. Two color title page. Each first letter of quote, essay, prose, philosophy, etc. illuminated. Index of Subjects, Index of Authors, Index of Poetry to rear. Roycrofters colophon to last page. Very clean, tightly bound. In protective archival polyester wraps. Beautiful book of great literature. 228 pp, plus indexes, sm 4 to. First Thus
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Hubbard, Elbert This then Consecrated Lives, Being Essays by Elbert Hubbard
East Aurora, New York Roycrofters 1904 First edition Full Leather Very Good
A collection of inspirational essays on people who have dedicated their lives and noble vocations to a purposeful life. Hubbard's philosophical observations on notable people spanning centuries from Othello, Caesar, to Goethe, Tolstoy, Booker Washington, Lady Godiva etc. through modern times. Hubbard's essay's and philosophical commentary are thought provoking, humorous and spiritual, under the topics of: Consecrated Lives; Nothing is Lost; The Consecration of Teaching; Life's School; The Problem; Education in Prisons; The Time to Live; As to Jealousy; A Forest Gymnasium; The Story of Servia; Write as You Feel; About th Boys; Obedience in Love; The Public School; Emerson; Motherhood; The Sea-Lions; Coleridge Philosophy; Success; Physical Culture; The Private School; Positivity In Education; Pastboard Proclivities; In Re Disadvantages; Work and Power. An inspirational and uplifting work. "A book printed by Roycrofters in their shop." Decorated photo frontispiece (tissue covered), and title page. Chapter headings in read ink, with areas of text the same. Elbert Green Hubbard, (b) 1856 in Bloomington, Ill.; American publisher, writer, philosopher, founder of Roycroft Press, who helped fuel the Arts and Craft movement formed by William Morris. In addition to his many writings from his creatively homespun philosophy, Hubbard lent himself to biography; historical and travel essays. His lecture tours were most admired by those in literary and art circles who were among the "free thinkers" of this period or the (19th Century group )Transcendentalists. Elbert Hubbard and his wife died on May 7, 1915, when aboard the Lusitania, which was sunk by a German submarine. Red suede boards with yap edges, red leather decorative title panel to front, with bright gilt lettering. Lower front corner chewed 1 1/2 inches, small tear to rear lower corner, deckled page edges. Previous owners name and date to f.e.p. 1904. Red silk pastedown and silk marker. Text clean and bright, solidly bound. TEG. sm 8 vo, 101 pp Roycrofters statement and decorative name to rear unnumbered pages. First Edition in this binding.
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