Hollyhocks and goldenglow / Elbert Hubbard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915.

Contributor:

Hunter, Dard, 1883-1966.

Roycroft Shop.

Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Conduct of life.

Genre:

Essays.

Penn Provenance:

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection)

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection)

Sanborn, Carlotta V. (inscription, April 6, 1913) (Vilain-Wieck Collection)

Kilson, Luther M. (autograph, April 6, 1913) (Vilain-Wieck Collection)

Physical Description:

158 pages : mounted portrait ; 19 cm

Place of Publication:

East Aurora, N.Y. : The Roycrofters, 1912.

Contents:

A prayer of gratitude

A new religion

The world's wish

A modern prophet

Infinite power

The only democrat

The trend of the times

Education and farming

Deathless fame

The essence of marriage

A day at the circus

Self-pity

The Titanic

The health habit

Modern education

The secret of power

In vaudeville

The age of the auto

Nature's supreme desire.

Notes:

"The first thousand copies ... off the press, are numbered and autographed by the author."

Title within ornamental borders; ornamental head- and endpieces and initials.

The text body in set in Scotch roman and printed on Strathmore paper in two colors. An edition of 1000 was bound in stamped flexible leather. The regular edition was also bound in stamped flexible leather. Additional binding variants include paper over boards, full Levant and a stamped stiff variegated leather similar to a Levant leather binding. The stiff variegated leather bound book was printed in four colors on Strathmore paper. The title page although unsigned, is believed to be by Dard Hunter.----cf. Roycroft Books [online resource]

"So here endeth the goodly book entitled Hollyhocks and goldenglow, as written by Elbert Hubbard and embellished with special initials and ornaments by Roycroft artists. Done into a printed book by the Roycrofters at their shop, which is in East Aurora, New York State, in the year MCMXII"--Colophon.

Local Notes:

Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Roycroft Press imprints presented to the Penn Libraries in 2012.

Roycroft 313 bound in stamped brown leather. Cover has title in panel at top, name of author in panel at bottom, oval floral panels at sides, a signed design by Lorenz Schwartz, teg. Inscribed to Carlota V. Sanborn from Luther M. Kilson.

Roycroft 314 bound in brown paper wrappers, with black title and foliate ornament on cover.

Cited in:

McKenna, P. Roycroft, 208

Ogle, David. On a high shelf, OB-184-12

Other Format:

Online version: Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915. Hollyhocks and goldenglow.

OCLC:

2354491