Little Journeys to The Homes of the Great; Eminent Orators

Cleveland, Ohio and New York, NY: The World Publishing Company, 1928. Presumed first printing thus. Hardcover. Format is approximately 6.25 inches by 8.5 inches. [2], 418, [6] pages. Frontispiece. Illustrations. Decorative binding. Some cover wear. This is the seventh volume in the 14 volume set. The typography, borders and initials were designed by the Roycroft artists at their shops, which are in East Aurora, New York. The contents include: Pericles, Mark Antony, Savonarola, Martin Luther, Edmund Burke, William Pitt, Jean Paul Marat, Robert Ingersoll, Patrick Henry, Starr King, Henry Ward Beecher, and Wendell Phillips. Elbert Green Hubbard (June 19, 1856 – May 7, 1915) was an American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher. Raised in Hudson, Illinois, he had early success as a salesman for the Larkin Soap Company. Hubbard is known best as the founder of the Roycroft artisan community in East Aurora, New York, an influential exponent of the Arts and Crafts movement. Among Hubbard's many publications were the fourteen-volume work Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great and the short publication A Message to Garcia. He and his second wife, Alice Moore Hubbard, died aboard the RMS Lusitania when it was sunk by a German submarine off the coast of Ireland on May 7, 1915. Hubbard's second wife, Alice Moore Hubbard, was a graduate of the New Thought-oriented Emerson College of Oratory in Boston and a noted suffragist. The Roycroft Shops became a site for meetings and conventions of radicals, freethinkers, reformers, and suffragists. This is a collection of biographical pieces written by Elbert Hubbard, and published monthly starting in 1894. The pieces were collected and republished in a 14-volume Memorial Edition in 1916, shortly after his death. The first volume includes a memoir of the author, and the last volume includes an index to the entire set. Condition: Good / No DJ present.

Keywords: Roycroft, 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

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