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Browne, Irving. Ballads of a Book-worm; Being a Rythmic Record of thoughts, Fancies, & Adventures a-collection. The Roycrofters, East Aurora, NY, 1899.

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Condition: Fair

Description: [4], 120, [4] pages. Private library accession number stamped and written inside front cover. Cover worn, chipped and soiled but pages crisp and clean. Spine worn, chipped, soiled, and missing bottom portion. Bookplate of Beatrice Borland, believed to be the author of Passports for Asia, etc., inside the front cover! All initials in this book were drawn by hand (per bound in slip). Mr. Browne died in 1899. The newspapers that chronicled at length the death of Irving Browne, who, born in 1835, devoted much space to his merits as a lawyer and writer on legal subjects, but said little about his love for books and his passion for book collecting. Irving Browne had been for many years the editor of the "Albany Law Journal." Mr. Browne was a poet as well as a writer of prose. He was the author of "The House of the Heart". He also translated Racine's comedy "Les Plaideurs," a broad satire on lawyers, and two volumes of essays, entitled "Iconoclasm and Whitewash" and "In the Track of the Bookworm. Mr. Browne died in February 1899 and Elbert Hubbard published this numbered, limited edition with hand drawings on April 21st of 1899. Note that there is a typographical error in the title, Rythmic was rendered as Rhythmic in the general edition of this fascinating and scarce work by a legendary legal figure of the nineteenth century especially in Buffalo and Albany. 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. 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 Hubbard's 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. His best-known work came after he founded Roycroft, an Arts and Crafts community in East Aurora, New York in 1895. This grew from his private press which he had initiated in collaboration with his first wife Bertha Crawford Hubbard, the Roycroft Press, inspired by William Morris' Kelmscott Press. Although called the "Roycroft Press" by latter-day collectors and print historians, the organization called itself "The Roycrofters" and "The Roycroft Shops". Hubbard edited and published two magazines, The Philistineâ"A Periodical of Protest and The FRA--A Journal of Affirmation. The Philistine was bound in brown butcher paper and featuring largely satire and whimsy. The Roycrofters produced handsome, if sometimes eccentric, books printed on handmade paper, and operated a fine bindery, a furniture shop, and shops producing modeled leather and hammered copper goods. They were a leading producer of Mission style products. Hubbard's second wife, Alice Moore Hubbard, was a graduate of the New Thought-oriented Emerson College of Oratory in Boston and a noted suffragist. The Roycroft Shops became a site for meetings and conventions of radicals, freethinkers, reformers, and suffragists. Hubbard became a popular lecturer, and his homespun philosophy evolved from a loose William Morris-inspired socialism to an ardent defense of free enterprise and American know-how. Limited Edition, illustrated by hand, of 850 copies. This is copy 59 signed by Elbert Hubbard!!!.

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