Woman’s Work. Being an inquiry and an assumption.
[ Roycroft Press ]. Hubbard, Alice.
[East Aurora, New York: Roycroft Press, 1908 First edition. Frontisportrait. Printed in green and golden-brown. Decorative title-page, initial letters, and running-titles designed by Dard Hunter. A little wear to outer edges of boards, Otherwise fine copy. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author:”To Bettie Morey with the love ever of Alice Hubbard and the Roycroft Dec. 25, 1908.” We don’t know who Bettie was, but she was obviously close to the Hubbard family. Special copy, on Japan vellum, in a deluxe half brown crushed morocco binding. Gilt floral-decorated spine, top edge gilt. Small quarto. [160] pp. (Item ID: 14990)
$750.00
A plea for women’s equality by Elbert Hubbard’s wife. Alice Hubbard (1861 1915) worked actively as a manager and editor for the Roycroft Press. She wrote several other books, including The Myth in Marriage (1912). She was killed in the Lusitania disaster, along with her husband.
