Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators: Volume XII (Book 1)

East Aurora, NY: The Roycrofters, (1903).

Price: $200.00

Softcover. Edition de luxe: copy number 839 of 947 copies, illumined and Signed by the artist Myrtle Mason. Volume XII of the series: Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators, containing the biographies of Pericles, Mark Antony, Savonarola, Martin Luther, Edmund Burke, and William Pitt. Bound in limp chamois, silk lined, and illustrated with photogravure frontispiece portraits; title page and initials hand illuminated in color by Myrtle Mason and printed on hand made Imperial Japan paper. Fading to the yapped edges and spine, else fine. A very handsome copy.

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Item #351037 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators: Volume XII (Book 1). Myrtle MASON, illuminator., Elbert HUBBARD.
Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators: Volume XII (Book 1)
Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators: Volume XII (Book 1)

Elbert Hubbard
birth name: Elbert Green Hubbard
born: 6/19/1856
died: 5/7/1915

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American editor, publisher, and author of the moralistic essay "A Message to Garcia" (1899). - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore