LITTLE JOURNEYS TO THE HOMES OF THE GREAT by Elbert Hubbard. C1928 -  copyright by The Roycrofters, pub The World Publishing Co., NY, NY. 

This is a complete 14 volume set, brown hard covers with elegant tooled front cover and spine decorated in gilt and green.  Fore edges not trimmed. Frontispiece and several additional B&W sketches in each book.  Please see list below.

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 traveling 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.  The influence of the Roycroft/Arts and Crafts movements can be seen in the design of the title pages.

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.

1 - GOOD MEN AND GREAT Includes Elbert Hubbard, Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin, William Gladstone.. 345 pgs

2 - FAMOUS WOMEN Includes Jane Austen, Madame Guyon, Harriet Martineau, Christina Rossetti…pgs 307 pgs

3 - GREAT AMERICAN STATESMEN Includes Henry Clay, William Seward, Daniel Webster, Alexander Hamilton…305 pgs

4 - EMINENT PAINTERS Includes Fortuny, Ary Scheffer, Landseer, Gusttave Dore…346 pgs

5 - ENGLISH AUTHORS Includes Tennyson, Milton, Addison, Southey, Disraeli…347 pgs

6 - GREAT ARTISTS  Includes Velazquez, Abbey, Bellini, Botticelli, Corot… pgs

7 - GREAT ORATORS Includes Pericles, William Pitt, Patrick Henry, Starr King, Savonarola…418 pgs

8 - GREAT PHILOSOPHERS Includes August Comte, Herbert Spencer, Spinoza, Seneca…429 pgs

9 - GREAT REFORMERS Includes John Wesley, Thomas Paine, Oliver Cromwell, Bradlaugh…395 pgs

10 - GREAT TEACHERS Includes Moses, King Alfred, Hypatia, Mary Baker Eddy…375 pgs

11 - GREAT BUSINESSMEN Includes John Astor, Peter Cooper, Andrew Carnegie, James J. Hill…435 pgs

12 - GREAT SCIENTISTS  Includes Sir Issac Newton, Galileo, Alfred Russell Wallace, Linnaeus… 424 pgs

13 - GREAT LOVERS  Includes Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Osbourne, Parnell and Kitty O'Shea, Dante Rossetti and Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal…430 pgs

14 - GREAT MUSICIANS Includes Verdi, Mozart, List, Paganini… 357 pgs plus extensive Index.

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