Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Philosophers: Voltaire (Signed by Alice Hubbard)

East Aurora, New York: Roycrofters, 1904. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good Minus. Inscribed by Alice Hubbard on the front free endpaper: "A Merry Christmas / to / The Ehrmann Household / Alice Hubbard / Dec. / 1909." 93pp. 1/4 tan cloth with bluish-gray paper over boards and a paper title label on the front board. Frontispiece portrait by Otto J. Schneider. With borders and initials designed by Roycroft artists. Spine and boards with mild areas of darkening and rubbing. Text block just beginning to pull away from the spine. Ghost impression of Alice Hubbard's inscription on the darkened front flyleaf. Alice Moore Hubbard (1861-1915), the wife of Elbert Hubbard, was a noted American feminist, suffragette, and writer. She marched in the first Washington D.C. suffragist parade on March 3, 1913. Alice and her husband perished in the sinking of the RMS Lusitania during World War I.