Complete Writings of Elbert Hubbard Signed, 20 vols set Start Price USD 3,200.00 Current Price USD 3,200.00 Time Left 19 days 9 hours 51 minutes Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Monday, September 22, 2008 End Time Sunday, December 21, 2008 Location Newtown, Connecticut See more about 'Complete Writings of Elbert Hubbard Signed, 20 vols set' Description HUBBARD, Elbert. Complete Writings of Elbert Hubbard. East Aurora, New York: The Roycroft Shop, [1908-1915]. 20 vols. Folio, original 3/4 tooled gold morocco, t.e.g. Author's Edition; No. 701 of 1,000 sets signed by Elbert Hubbard. Printed in three colors. Title page design and initial letters by Dard Hunter. Elbert Green Hubbard (1856-1915) Author, publisher, philosopher, Utopian and Huckster, preached and practiced a conservative gospel of self-reliance and capitalism which he put into practice at the Roycroft Shops, an Arts & Crafts community in East Aurora, New York, modeled on William Morris. Hubbard was a great innovator in merchandising and marketing before he devoted himself to writing, lecturing and handicrafts. Hubbard was a true literary icon and his nephew was L. Ron Hubbard, who went on to be a successful sci-fi writer and also founder of the controversial religion "Scientology." This is a tremendous collector's item! Measures 8-1/4" x 11 3/8"  4 band spine with gilt. Red ribbon bound in. Hand set, printed on cream rag paper with Roycroft watermark. Gilt top edge. Photo or engraving frontispiece, usually of Hubbard in each volume. Etchings of subjects precede each essay. Illuminated initial caps. Each volume was numbered and signed by Hubbard. PLEASE READ THIS Please - do not wait until the last hours of the auction to email questions. I will answer any questions as quickly as possible.Given the weight of the set; multiple boxes will be used and each box insured for the full value of the auction. The History of Roycroft Roycroft is as much a state of mind as a place; this paraphrases what Elbert Hubbard had in mind when he founded the utopian craft community more than 100 years ago. The first Roycroft publication was printed in 1895. Originally devoted to the making of beautiful books in the manner of William Morris, the Roycrofters soon developed a wide range of arts and crafts items for sale. What they made to furnish and decorate their expanding Roycroft Campus was soon being sold by catalog. The unique combination of Hubbard family, artisans, and workers created a multi-level complex operation that included books, art, education, music, and magazines. The Book "Images of America The Roycroft Campus" by Kitty Turgeon and Robert Rust explore the key factors that surround what made Roycroft Campus fascinating social experiment and made it eligible for a National Historic Landmark status. That designation was given in March 1986. Elbert Green Hubbard was born june 19, 1856, the third child to a country doctor and his wife in Bloomington, Illinois. His parents had moved west after their sojourn in western New York on the Seneca Indian Reservation. Dr. Silas was from a large family from Mayville, New York, on Chautauqua Lake.  Juliana Reed Hubbard, a young teacher, was from Buffalo, New York, the daughter of a bookbinder. Elbert's father was a phrenologist, having studied medicine at Castleton College in Vermont. Apparently, he was a good doctor who never earned much money because he often gave away his services. With little formal schooling, Elbert Hubbard went to work selling soap for a cousin in Chicago. He married Bertha Crawford in 1879. They moved to Buffalo, where Elbert joined his sister Frances's husband, John Larkin, as a partner in the Larkin Co., another soap business. In 1883, the young Hubbard and their son Bert moved to East Aurora, New York, and for ten years he commuted by train to work in Buffalo. His liaison with Alice Moore began in the late 1880s; she soon encouraged his writing and subsequent "dropping out" of the "establishment" or traditional world. After a six-week stint at Harvard, he traveled to England to research his Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, soon to be published by J. P. Putnam & Sons. A daughter, Miriam, was born to Elbert and Alice in 1894, and only a year later, Katherine was born to he and his wife Bertha. The man was torn between his respect and love for the two women, but divorce and remarriage was the eventual result between 1902 and 1904. Elbert Hubbard founded the Roycroft Press in 1895, and two years later, he began building what was to become the Roycroft Campus. The success of his essay "A Message to Garcia" (1899) catapulted him and the Roycroft to fame and enough fortune to build his Roycroft Campus bigger and better and eventually, to employ nearly 500 people. After Alice and Elbert's death on the Lusitania in 1915, Elbert II (Bert) and his wife, Alta, ran the enterprise differently, but with a financial stability that was better than ever through the 1920s. Changing tastes and especially, the Great Depression dragged the Roycrofters into bankruptcy by 1938. Bert and Alta lived on as prominent citizens of East Aurora / he even served as mayor. Their children stayed in the area. Their only son, Elbert Hubbard III (known as John), became a doctor; he is now retired. Their youngest daughter, Nancy Hubbard Brady, was one of the founders of the RALA; she died in 1982. Here daughter Linda carries on the book business, "The House of Hubbards." Miriam's six children dispersed to several places around the East Coast. Here eldest daughter, Mary Roelofs Stott, became a noted author and musician; there is an award fund in her name. One of the Hubbard's farms, the Arden Farm, is still in Miriam's family; run by her youngest son, Mark, it provides organic produce for the western New York community.All offers will be considered. Place a Bid!