Hubbard, Elbert
Arts & Crafts ca 1900 | Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great, G.P. Putnam’s Sons New York & London, twenty-frist thousand, ca 1900, 366 +(2) pp. Luxury edition.
HUBBARD, Elbert. Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great. New York & London, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, ca. 1895–1900. Early printing (“Twenty-First Thousand”). Decorated title in red and black. Ownership stamp. A popular volume from Hubbard’s influential Little Journeys series, associated with the American Arts & Crafts movement.
With portraits of and stories about: George Eliot, Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin, Wm. E. Gladstone, JMW Turner, Jonathan Swift, Victor Hugo, WM. Wordsworth, WM Thackeray, Charles Dickens, Oliver Goldsmith and Shakespeare.
Suede cloth binding with guilt text. Some discoloration on the edges. With Asian collector’s seal on the titlepage right bottom ( hanko / inkan, yinzhang (印章)). Western book with Asian, Aziatic provenance.
[NL] Elbert Hubbard was een centrale figuur in de Amerikaanse Arts & Crafts-beweging en oprichter van de Roycroft-gemeenschap. Suède-band met op de rug een schild met goudletters: Little journeys good men and great. The little journeys waren een enorme bestseller rond 1900. Het bevat een reeks biografisch-essayistische werken over historische figuren.
Provenance: Met Oost-Aziatisch eigendomsstempel, collector’s seal. Westers boek met Aziatische provenance.
SKU: 23422-2
€ 98,10(€ 90,00
