Head, Heart and Hand: Elbert Hubbard and the Roycrofters
- SIGNED Leather Bound
- University of Rochester Press, 1994
University of Rochester Press, 1994. Special limited edition. Leather Bound. SIGNED. 168pp. Quarto [30 cm] 1/4 green leather with green cloth over boards. Leather titled and decoratively stamped in blind. Marbled endpapers. With a minor slant back to the foot of the spine. In the publisher's green cloth covered slipcase, with light soiling. Publisher's letter to customer laid in. Lavishly illustrated in bright color. Near fine in a very good slipcase. A book published in conjunction with an exhibition organized by the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester and The American Federation of Arts. Number 7 in an edition limited to 250 copies. Signed by Elbert Hubbard's grandson, Elbert Hubbard III, on the limitation page. Additionally signed by Via Marie with the date "7/23/95" on the recto of the frontispiece.
"Most of the 200 works in the exhibition are pictured, with color photographs of the personalities and places figuring in the Roycroft's peculiar history bringing the community vividly to life. Essays in the catalogue include a sociological overview anchoring the Roycroft in its turn-of-the-century milieu; an examination of the history of the Roycroft shops; and an exploration of Hubbard's role in the creation of America's consumer culture through his trademark brand of advertising and promotion." - Aurora Historical Society.
"Most of the 200 works in the exhibition are pictured, with color photographs of the personalities and places figuring in the Roycroft's peculiar history bringing the community vividly to life. Essays in the catalogue include a sociological overview anchoring the Roycroft in its turn-of-the-century milieu; an examination of the history of the Roycroft shops; and an exploration of Hubbard's role in the creation of America's consumer culture through his trademark brand of advertising and promotion." - Aurora Historical Society.