Rare 1916 Little Journeys Leather 14-vol Set by Elbert Hubbard | Roycroft |Memorial Edition-Harry Krohn

This rare and complete 14-volume set of Little Journeys by Elbert Hubbard (1916 Memorial Edition) is a stunning tribute to the craftsmanship of the Roycrofters and the legacy of Elbert Hubbard. Featuring embossed leather covers and the renowned quality of Roycroft artistry, this set is a true collector’s treasure. Hubbard’s Little Journeys includes essays on inspirational figures, blending biography, philosophy, and Hubbard’s distinctive wit. This set is a perfect addition for collectors of the Arts and Crafts movement, Roycroft memorabilia, or fine literary works.

Volume 1 includes a decorative page indicating that this specific set was prepared for Harry Krohn, adding a one of a kind unique and personalized touch to an already extraordinary collection. (The Memorial edition was published by the Rycrofters after E. Hubbard 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.) Memorial page dedication: “In the design modeled in colors on the outside front cover of these fourteen volumes, the artist has given us his conception of a memorial to Elbert Hubbard. In the foreground the tree, emblematic of his life’s work. The water to recall the last voyage of the ill-fated Lusitania. And the golden glow of a brilliant sunset through the mountains in the distance to remind us of Elert Hubbard’s “Last Journey” to the Great Beyond."

Measurements:
The stack of books measures 19.75” across standing side by side. Individual books vary in width, but are 8.5” tall and 6 ⅜” wide. The set weighs 21 lb.

Elbert Hubbard (American, 1856-1915)
Little Journeys Memorial Edition
Year: 1916
A complete set, rarely found with all 14 volumes intact.
Original leather embossed covers by the Roycrofters
Condition: overall good antique condition with normal wear and tear due to age. Some spots on some pages. Slight bend to some of the spines. Volume 1 binding is breaking under the coverSome scuffs/cracking in the covers. I am happy to provide more photos upon request as Etsy only lets you add 10.

Volume 1: Good Men: includes articles on Thomas Carlyle, author Charles Dickens, inventor Thomas A. Edison, George Eliot, William E. Gladstone, Oliver Goldsmith, French author Victor Hugo, John Ruskin, William Shakespeare, Jonathan Swift, William M. Thackeray, painter J.M.W. Turner, Walt Whitman, and Wm. Wordsworth
Volume 2: Famous Women: includes articles on Jane Austen, Rosa Bonheur, Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Madame de Staël, Empress Joséphine de Beauharnais, reformer Elizabeth Fry, Madame Guyon, Mary Ann Lamb, Harriet Martineau, poet Christina Rossetti, and Mary Shelley
Volume 3: American Statesmen: includes articles on 'The Little Journeys Camp', John Quincy Adams, Samuel Adams, Henry Clay, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, John Hancock, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, William H. Seward, George Washington, and Daniel Webster
Volume 4: Eminent Painters: includes articles on Gustave Doré, Mariano Fortuny, Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier, Michelangelo, Jean-François Millet, Rembrandt van Rijn, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Sir Peter Paul Rubens, Ary Scheffer, Titian, and Anthony van Dyck
Volume 5: English Authors: includes articles on Joseph Addison; Victorian poet Robert Browning; Scots bard Robert Burns; George Gordon, Lord Byron; Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield; Dr. Samuel Johnson; Thomas Babington Macaulay; John Milton; William Morris;
poet Robert Southey; and poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Volume 6: Eminent Artists: includes articles on Edwin Austin Abbey, Giovanni Bellini, Sandro Botticelli, Benvenuto Cellini, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Antonio da Correggio, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Gainsborough, Raphael {Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino}, Bertel Thorvaldsen, Diego Velázquez, and James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Volume 7: Eminent Orators: includes articles on Marcus Antonius; Henry Ward Beecher; Edmund Burke; Patrick Henry; Robert G. Ingersoll; Thomas Starr King; Martin Luther; Jean-Paul Marat; Athens statesman Pericles; abolitionist Wendell Phillips; William Pitt, Earl of Chatham; and Girolamo Savonarola
Volume 8: Philosophers: includes articles on philosophers Aristotle, Marcus Aurelius, Auguste Comte, Immanuel Kant, Schopen-hauer, Seneca, Socrates, Herbert Spencer, Spinoza, Swedenborg, Henry David Thoreau, and Voltaire
Volume 9: Great Reformers: includes articles on English atheist Charles Bradlaugh, John Bright, Richard Cobden, Oliver Cromwell, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Henry George, Anne Hutchinson, Scottish theologian John Knox, Thomas Paine, Transcendentalist Theodore Parker, philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Methodist theologian John Wesley
Volume 10: Great Teachers: includes articles on Thomas Arnold, Chinese philosopher Confucius, Christian Science founder Mary Baker Eddy, Desiderius Erasmus, Friedrich Fröbel, Greek philosopher Hypatia, King Alfred the Great of Wessex, Moses, Greek philosopher Plato, Greek philosopher Pythagoras, St. Benedict of Nursia, and Afro-American leader Booker T. Washington
Volume 11: Great Businessmen: includes articles on meatpacking tycoon Philip Danforth Armour, fur trader John Jacob Astor, steel tycoon Andrew Carnegie, industrialist Peter Cooper, banker Stephen Girard, railroad tycoon James J. Hill, inventor & industrialist James Oliver, socialist mill owner Robert Owen, merchant banker George Peabody, oil tycoon H.H. {Henry Huttleston} Rogers, banker Mayer Amschel Rothschild, and drygoods tycoon A.T. {Alexander Turney} Stewart
Volume 12: Great Scientists: includes articles on astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus, naturalist Charles Darwin, philosopher & historian John Fiske, astronomer Galileo Galilei, naturalist Ernst Haeckel, astronomer William Herschel, biologist Thomas Henry Huxley, biologist Carl Linnæus, physicistSir Isaac Newton, physicist John Tyndall, naturalist & explorer Alexander von Humboldt, and naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace
Volume 13: Great Lovers: includes articles on Dante Alighieri & Beatrice Portinari; Honoré de Balzac & Madame Hanska; François Fénelon & Madame Guyon; William Godwin & Mary Wollstonecraft; Ferdinand Lassalle & Helene von Dönniges; Horatio, Lord Nelson & Emma, Lady Hamilton; Charles Stewart Parnell & Kitty O'Shea; Petrarch & Laura de Noves; Dante Gabriel Rossetti & Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal;
Robert Louis Stevenson & Fanny Osbourne; and Josiah & Sarah Wedgwood
Volume 14: Great Musicians: includes articles on Johann Sebastian Bach, Johannes Brahms, Frédéric Chopin, George Frideric Handel, Franz Liszt, Felix Mendelssohn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Niccolò Paganini, Robert Schumann, Ludwig van Beethoven, Giuseppe Verdi, and Wilhelm Richard Wagner

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