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Title: The Roycroft books; a catalog and some comment concerning the shop and workers at East Aurora, N.Y
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Roycroft Shop
Subjects: Catalogs, Publishers' -- United States
Publisher: (East Aurora)

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say Elbert Hubbardnever did that. i8 Do Chingo* in the New York Sun. The boss Roycrofter is now forty-two years old. He has an ath-letic frame and looks somewhatyounger than his years. Wearinghis hair as he does, he looks notunlike Henry Ward Beecher, ex-cept that his hair is black. Hetalks as he writes, in slang whenit pleases him, and at anothertime in discourse saturated withart and letters. Since it becameapparent that Hubbard was ac-complishing in this country agreat many things that WilliamMorris did in England, a greatmany well-known men and wom-en in this country and abroadhave entered into correspondencewith him and have tried to dohim honor and have sought hiscompany and counsel.It was Elbert Hubbards over-powering desire to heap scorn,ridicule and even abuse upon allwho seemed to be shams & hyp-ocrites that gave the Roycroftenterprise its beginning. Hub-bard visited William Morris in1892. What he saw on that visitimpressed him, be says, morethan any other thing had ever
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bL_.eronie of E.Aurora. done. His bead was full of Wil-liam Morriss ideas after that.He did not see how to put any ofthem into practice in this coun-try, although he desired verymuch to do so. In the spring of1895 he joined one or two friendsin Buffalo in a plan to issue twoor three pamphlets attacking cer-tain publications and their edi-tors, and other individuals whohad roused his whimsical wrath.The plan at first was that the dayof the pamphleteer should be re-vived. The cold, practical busi-ness sense with which Hubbardwas endowed took note of thefact that it would cost at leastone cent each to send pamphletsthrough the mails ; whereas if thepamphlet was a number of amagazine, the Government woulddistribute it for one cent a pound.The PHILISTINE was startedas a magazine with the definiteintention on the part of its pub-lishers that they would forget toissue more than two or threenumbers. They were very surethey would not issue more thanthree. These three were printedand it was app

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