Description: Set of 14 Antique "Little Journeys To The Homes Of The Great " books written by Elbert Hubbard, Memorial Collection. Volumes 1-13 plus the Guide The set was published in 1916 by The Roycrofters in East Aurora, Erie County, New York. Each book is approximately 8-1/2" in height and 6-1/4" long and published by "Wm H Wise & Co NY." Each volume is crafted in original brown leatherette with gold titles, embossed spine and embossed color picture panel on front cover of each volume, gilt top page ridge, decorative grey endpapers, and brown ribbon markers. There is a frontispiece to each volume. This is a collection of biographical pieces, written by Elbert Hubbard, and published monthly starting in 1894. Volume 1: Good Men and Great, Publisher's Preface, Autobiographical, George Eliot, Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin, William E. Gladstone, J.M.W. Turner, Jonathan Swift, Walt Whitman, Victor Hugo, Wm. Wordsworth, William M. Thackeray, Charles Dickens, Oliver Goldsmith, William Shakespeare, Thomas A. Edison Volume 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 Volume 3: American Statesmen 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 Volume 4: Eminent Painters Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Rubens, Meissonier, Titian, Anthony van Dyck, Fortuny, Ary Scheffer, Francois Millet, Joshua Reynolds, Landseer, Gustave Dore Volume 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 Volume 6: Eminent Artists (Raphael, Leonardo, Botticelli, Thorwaldsen, Gainsborough, Velasquez, Corot, Correggio, Bellini, Cellini, Abbey, Whistler Volume 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 Volume 8: Great Philosophers (Socrates, Seneca, Aristotle, Marcus Aurelius, Immanuel Kant, Swedenborg, Spinoza, Auguste Comte, Voltaire, Herbert Spencer, Schopenhauer, Henry D. Thoreau Volume 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 Volume 10: Great Teachers (Moses, Confucius, Pythagoras, Plato, King Alfred, Erasmus, Booker T. Washington, Thomas Arnold, Friedrich Froebel, Hypatia, Saint Benedict, Mary Baker Eddy Volume 11: Great Businessmen (Robert Owen, James Oliver, Stephen Girard, Mayer A. Rothschild, Philip D. Armour, John J. Astor, Peter Cooper, Andrew Carnegie, George Peabody, A. T. Stewart, H. H. Rogers, James J. Hill Volume 12: Great Scientists (Sir Isaac Newton, Galileo, Copernicus, Humboldt, William Herschel, Charles Darwin, Haeckel, Linnaeus, Thomas H. Huxley, John Tyndall, Alfred R. Wallace, John Fiske Volume 13: Great Lovers Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Osbourne, Josiah and Sarah Wedgwood, William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, Dante and Beatrice, John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor, Parnell and Kitty O'Shea, Petrarch and Laura, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal, Balzac and Madame Hanska, Fenelon and Madame Guyon, Ferdinand Lassalle and Helene von Donniges, Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton
Price: 129.99 USD
Location: Scotch Plains, New Jersey
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Return shipping will be paid by: Seller
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Binding: Leather
Place of Publication: New York
Language: English
Signed: No
Author: Elbert Hubbard
Region: North America
Personalized: No
Publisher: The Roycrofters
Topic: History
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Year Printed: 1916
Original/Facsimile: Original