Description

A very good softcover. Previous owners name on front cover. Previous price on front endpaper. Inside pages are otherwise clean with no markings.

If you are looking for a witty and charming book about life, love and work, look no further! The Notebook of Elbert Hubbard offers a glimpse into the mind of an influential 20th-century American thinker and craftsman, and the book itself is a beautiful example of the Arts and Crafts movement with its artisanal design. It’s a collection of mottoes, epigrams, and short essays that reflect his life.

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. Presently 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. Among his 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. Quotable: “Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.”