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Hubbard, Elbert Green (1856–1915)| US writer and printer. His chief work is A Message to García 1899, through which the Cuban lawyer and revolutionary Calixto García (1836–1898) became widely known in the USA. His printing business, the Roycroft Corporation, published artistic books. |
| Influenced by William Morris, he tried to emulate his ideas on printing, decoration, and medieval design. After establishing Roycroft in East Aurora, New York, he founded two magazines and printed his own books, including A Little Journey to the Home of George Eliot 1895, the first in a series of sketches of homes of the famous, collected in 14 volumes 1914, and Loyalty in Business 1921. He died aboard the Lusitania when it was torpedoed. |
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