1905 Essay on Self Reliance Ralph Waldo Emerson Elbert Hubbard Roycroft Imprint

The Essay on Self-Reliance. By Ralph Waldo Emerson. East Aurora, New York: The Roycroft Shop, 1905. Frontispiece of Emerson + 51 pp. Lipped-suede leather binding measures 8 x 5". McKenna #113: Body copy set in Bruce Roman. Printed on Roycroft handmade paper in two colors, black and green, with green being restricted to the title page and colophon. Bound in limp suede. McKenna, P. (1996). A History & Bibliography of the Roycroft Printing Shop. Tona Graphics. In fair condition. TEXT-BLOCK IS SEPARATED FROM BINDING - LOOSE TEXT-BLOCK! Leather boards scuffed at edges and worn/bumped at corners with some lifting. Head and tail of spine chipped with exposed binding. Spine lightly tanned from shelf-wear/sun-exposure. Top edge of text-block gilt. Text-block normally toned in margins; some sparse instances of finger-soiling and age-staining. TEXT-BLOCK IS SEPARATED FROM BINDING - LOOSE TEXT-BLOCK! Please see photos and ask questions, if any, before purchasing. Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) was the founder of Roycroft, an Arts and Crafts community in East Aurora, New York, 1885. The organization called itself either “The Roycrofters” or “The Roycroft Shops,” and they printed, not only magazines, but also handsome, sometimes eccentric, books printed on handmade paper and bound finely. The group also operated a furniture shop, and a shop dedicated to producing modeled leather and hammered copper goods. The Roycroft Shops became a site for meetings and conventions of radicals, freethinkers, reformers, and suffragists. Hubbard, himself, became a popular lecturer at these meetings, and championed for socialist governments and free thinking. RAREA1905ACCB - 08/26 - HK3852. …