Elbert Hubbard Scrap Book

[whuber2]

My mother passed away and I found the Elbert Hubbard Scrap Book in her library but can not find any reference to it in the histiry of Elbert Hubbard.

It was a gift from Glenn F. Ely to Eva dated Xmas 1926.

Copyright, 1926 By The Roycrofters

Foreword:

Then Elbetr Hubbard was storing up in his Scrap Book the fruits of other men's genius, he did not contemplate a volume for publication. He was merely gathering spiritual provisions for his own refreshment and delectation.

Any help?

[shurtagal]

Sadly I can't help you, but I did have the same experience just recently when my grandmother passed. (Although mines copyright 1923, rrrrrr. not quite PD.) But quite a nice book isn't it?

[shurtagal]

Edit: Well ok I'm lazy and like the quick reply feature so I'm not actual editing. But, some digging reveals that there are modern printings of this book however the text its self may no longer be in copy right. (I am in no way shape or form a lawyer, representative of any legal firm or holding, and have no affiliation with people who actually know stuff.) However according to the Bromberg and Sunstein LLP law firm if this book's copyright was not renewed within 28 yrs of pub. (or 1951) it's copyright has now expired. http://www.bromsun.com/practices/cop.../flowchart.htm So I check through two independent copyright renewal databases, one hosted by Stanford, and one created by an employee of google. http://collections.stanford.edu/copy...e?forward=home and http://www.incopyright.org/
Both of these returned no result of a renewal of copyright for this book up until 1963 with emphasis on 1950-1963.

So you may look for this book to appear on project gutenberg ... eventually, and on LibriVox.org at some point, pending true declaration of copyright status.

[jgweed]

Amazing it is that I have a copy of the same 1923 edition with leather (?) binding.

This is interesting:

http://www.roycrofter.com/

Cheers,
John

[shurtagal]

yes, a leather binding indeed. but ye know what I find interesting, even though The Roycrofters was in operation in 1923, they did not publish the scrapbook, or at least not mine. My copy appears to have been published by Wm. H. Wise & co. Same on yours?

[jgweed]

Printed and made into a book by the Roycrofters, at their shops, in East Aurora, Eried Country, New York State.

Wm. H. Wise&Co.
Roycroft Distributiors
New York City

I have not done extensive research into this book, but surmise that the book was printed and bound at the shop and probably distributed by Wise as their agent.