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Marbled Monday

This book is somewhat unassuming on the outside, with is brown leather and subtle gold tooling and stamping, but on the inside has the most beguiling marbled endpapers! The book is Elbert Hubbard’s Scrap Book: Containing the Inspired and Inspiring Selections Gathered During a Life Time of Discriminating Reading for His Own Use. We hold three copies of the book—this is copy 2 and the only copy we hold with this binding. 

Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) was an American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher who founded the Roycroft Arts and Crafts Community in Aurora, New York in 1895. Hubbard fashioned himself somewhat after William Morris as a socialist craftsman, although he later abandoned socialism. Hubbard and his wife Alice died in the sinking of the Lusitania on May 7, 1915 when the ship was torpedoed by a German U-boat. 

Elbert Hubbard’s Scrap Book was published in 1923 by The Roycrofters in Aurora, New York. It is a collection of passages by notable figures that Hubbard had collected during his life. The marbled papers are in a Serpentine pattern, similar to those we shared a few weeks ago on our copy of  Romanae Historiae Compendium... . These papers feature teal, reddish brown, and cream colors swirled together in a sort of zig-zagged pattern. 

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-- Alice, Special Collections Department Manager

[porterdavis]

Roycroft Dictionary - Elbert Hubbard

FAILURE : I . The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it , but never does it himself. 1 . A man who has blundered , but is not able to cash in on the experience .

[mapas-fantasticos]

Map of Pontea from The Severing Son novel by Vaughn Roycroft (Map by Tall Shepherd).

[julesofnature]

I love you, 
not only for what you are, 
but for what I am when I am with you. I love you, 
not only for what you have made of yourself, 
but for what you are making of me.  I love you, 
for the part of me that you bring out. 
I love you, 
for putting your hand into my heaped-up heart, 
and passing over all the foolish, weak things that you can’t help dimly seeing there, 
and for drawing out, into the light, 
all the beautiful belongings that no one else had looked quite far enough to find.  I love you, 
because you are helping me to make of the lumber of my life not a tavern, but a temple. 
Out of the works of my every day, not a reproach, but a song.  I love you, 
because you have done more than any creed could have done to make me good, 
and more than any fate could have done to make me happy.  You have done it without a touch, 
without a word, 
without a sign. 
You have done it by being yourself. 
Perhaps that is what being a friend means, after all.

This poem is usually credited to the poet Roy Croft. Not much is known about the writer, however the poem was included in the 1936 anthology “Best Loved Poems of American People” and also appears in “The Family Book of Best Loved Poems” (1952). German translations of the same piece of writing are attributed to Austrian poet Erich Fried, which lead to speculation that the poem is a translation of Fried’s work and Roy Croft is a pseudonym, however taking into account that the poem was already published in 1936 this is unlikely. https://www.marriedbykate.com/client-portal-readings-1/2018/9/9/i-love-you-by-roy-croft

Or, the translator posing as Roy Croft may have wanted to keep the royalties for himself or just not be bothered with obtaining permission from a foreign writer or agency.  https://allpoetry.com/Roy-Croft

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[cottagecore-antifa-gf]

i am a strawberry girlie. i want all of my plates and cups to have strawberries on them. i am this close to getting a strawberry plant tattoo. my garden is gonna have more strawberries than anything else in raised beds with netting on them.

[vintage-tech]

The speedometer/odometer of some old car, with the numbers in a pretty excellent Roycroft font.

[psalm22-6]

Source: So This Then is The Battle of Waterloo, published by Roycrofters in 1907, an excerpt of Les Misérables, translated by Lascelles Wraxall I just think it’s funny that a part of the book that so many people dislike today was so widely liked in the past. In American newspapers, excerpts of the Waterloo digression were printed in newspapers for decades after the book was published and this is not even the only example I’ve found of a book that includes only the Waterloo chapters. 

[a-life-lived-outdoors]

The Roycroft Pack Frame.

[thebeautifulbook]

THE ESSAY ON FRIENDSHIP by Henry David Thoreau. (East Aurora, Roycroft Press, 1903). Design by Louis Herman Kinder. 50 copies on Japan vellum.

[wildbeautifuldamned]

Antique BEEFY Mission Arts & Crafts Oak Library Table Desk Stickley Roycroft Era ebay jeannesantiques

[porterdavis]

Roycroft Dictionary - Elbert Hubbard

CONSERVATIVE : One who is opposed to the things he is in favor of.

[nando161mando]

"All good men are Anarchists.

All cultured, kindly men; all gentlemen; all just men are Anarchists.

Jesus was an Anarchist.

A monarchist is one who believes a monarch should govern. A Plutocrat believes in the rule of the rich. A Democrat holds that the majority should dictate. An Aristocrat thinks only the wise should decide; while an Anarchist does not believe in government at all."

— Elbert Hubbard, Jesus Was An Anarchist

[notasfilosoficas]

“No te tomes la vida demasiado en serio. No saldrás de ella con vida”

Elbert Green Hubbard

Fue un escritor, editor, artista y filósofo estadounidense nacido en Bloomington Illinois en junio de 1856. Uno de los exponentes del movimiento Arts and Crafts y reconocido por su ensayo “Un mensaje a García”.

En sus inicios fue un vendedor de jabones, junto con su primo en una compañía de Chicago, posteriormente se mudó a Buffalo para asociarse con el esposo de su hermana en la fabricación de jabones en el estado de Nueva York, la cual tuvo hasta 1893.

Fue gracias al éxito de su libro “Mensaje a García” que en 1889 funda las ediciones The Roycrofters así cómo una tienda comunitaria que distribuía diversos artículos artesanales como cerámicas, objeto de metal, de cuero y obras de arte de todo tipo.

En 1895 creó un lugar de recepción destinado a albergar visitantes del movimiento de las artes y oficios durante su primer viaje a Gran Bretaña.

Después de 6 años de estudio en Harvard, regresa a Inglaterra y en donde publicaría una colección de biografías de hombres famosos con el nombre de “Pequeños viajes a la casa de los grandes” fundando una editorial de nombre The Roycrofters y mas tarde Roycroft Press.

Bajo esta editorial publica dos revistas con una linea editorial bastante variada sobre diferentes temas, desde las bendiciones de la naturaleza hasta los peligros de la riqueza excesiva.

Su obra mas conocida es el Mensaje a García publicado en 1899, el cual tuvo mucho éxito y publicó 40 millones de ejemplares con diversas reimpresiones, dando lugar a una película en 1936 dirigida por George Marshall.

Como filósofo fue un hombre autodidacta ecléctico y en ocasiones excéntrico y famoso por sus refranes y frases celebres.

También se consideraba un feminista quien apoyaba a su esposa en la publicación de libros que promovían la liberación de la mujer.

Murió en mayo de 1915 en Irlanda, su editorial, manejada por su hijo mayor quebró en 1938.

Fuente: Wikipedia.

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by Andrew Roycroft | Spending an hour with Sam and Sadie was a privilege that few people get to enjoy. To be in the presence of a relative stranger who stepped up and spoke up for Jesus to a late loved one is most likely not a common experience. At the end of my visit I got a photograph…

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still one of my favorite readings