Elbert Hubbard's Scrap Book Containing the Inspired and Inspiring Selections, Gathered During a Life Time of Discriminating Reading for His Own Use

New York, NY: Wm. H. Wise & Company. Very Good. 1923. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This notebook has a semi-limp cloth binding that has a string binding. The book is in Very Good condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book covers have staining / tidemarking to the rear cover edges. The inside front hinge has cracking (but the hinge itself is tight). The text pages are clean and bright. "Hubbard ... Was reborn, in middle age, as Fra Elbertus, the owner, leader, prophet, and boss of Roycroft, a quasi-communal, neomedievalist (after William Morris) , semiutopian community of residences and shops that specialized in the printing of handsome leather-bound, hand-illumined books, and in the manufacture of furniture, pottery, leather goods, rugs, baskets, stained-glass lamps and windows, candy, painting, music, all of which bore the Roycroft name. His best-known work came after he founded Roycroft, an Arts and Crafts community in East Aurora, New York in 1895. This grew from his private press which he had initiated in collaboration with his first wife Bertha Crawford Hubbard, the Roycroft Press, inspired by William Morris' Kelmscott Press. Although called the "Roycroft Press" by latter-day collectors and print historians, the organization called itself "The Roycrofters" and "The Roycroft Shops". " (from Wikipedia) .