$100.00 CAD
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Little pamphlet stuffed with great imagery and artistic content. More of a work of art than a catalog!
First edition and rare! Illustrated with superb illustrations, decorations, headpieces, borders, etc. by DARD HUNTER.
Titled ‘A CATALOG of SOME BOOKS & THINGS made by the ROYCROFTERS at their SHOP opposite the SCHOOL HOUSE in EAST AURORA 1905 & 6’
Inside page says ‘A Catalog of Roycroft Books and Things Year Ten from the Founding of the Roycroftshops, East Aurora NY’.
Pages with snippets of poetry. Photos of Roycroft facilities, writers.
Multi-page short story ‘A little journey to East Aurora’ by Francis and Abigail Farrar
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Printed on various types of paper, some thick some glossy, some pure white some light brown. More art collage than a typical pamphlet.
Condition is poor/fair. Covers stained, some tears. Some noted written in pencil on inside blank page. Binding loose. Toning along outside edges of pages. One page was not fully cut, tear at top where paper separated.
70 pages + covers
8” x 6 ¼”
Roycroft was a reformist community of craft workers and artists which formed part of the Arts and Crafts movement in the United States. Elbert Hubbard founded the community in 1895, in the village of East Aurora, New York, near Buffalo. Participants were known as Roycrofters. The work and philosophy of the group, often referred to as the Roycroft movement, had a strong influence on the development of American architecture and design in the early 20th century.
…the word roycroft had a special significance to Elbert Hubbard, meaning King's Craft. In guilds of early modern Europe, king's craftsmen were guild members who had achieved a high degree of skill and therefore made things for the King.
Elbert Hubbard…was unable to find a publisher for his book Little Journeys, so inspired by Morris's Kelmscott Press, decided to set up his own private press to print the book himself, founding Roycroft Press.
His championing of the Arts and Crafts approach attracted a number of visiting craftspeople to East Aurora, and they formed a community of printers, furniture makers, metalsmiths, leathersmiths, and bookbinders.
The Arts and Crafts movement was an international movement in the decorative and fine arts that began in Britain and flourished in Europe and North America between about 1880 and 1920. It stood for traditional craftsmanship using simple forms, and often used medieval, romantic, or folk styles of decoration. It advocated economic and social reform and was essentially anti-industrial. It had a strong influence on the arts in Europe until it was displaced by Modernism in the 1930s, and its influence continued among craft makers, designers, and town planners long afterwards.
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