CIRCA 1922 Booklet ROYCROFT INN Elbert Hubbard DARD HUNTER EAST AURORA [Var 1]

Description

CIRCA 1922
Booklet
ROYCROFT INN
Elbert Hubbard
DARD HUNTER
EAST AURORA
[Var 1]
DESCRIPTION:
Circa 1922
[VARIETY 1]
booklet,
[Cover Title]
ENTRANCE TO THE ROYCROFT INN
[Title Page Title]
THE ROYCROFT INN;
Roycroft-Town -
East Aurora – N - Y;
Elbert Hubbard
; 12 pages; 7 photographic illustrations of the Inn; size 5-1/2 by 3-1/2 inches; cover designed by
Dard Hunter
signed front and back
“DH”
[VARIETY 1 (this copy)
]:
states on first page of text
,
“Roycroft Inn, built
25
years ago by the Roycrofters”
[1922];
Automobiles are different and in a different position in the
Roycroft Inn
picture of each and the year of the automobile appears to correspond with the year of the text.
[VARIETY 2 (NOT THIS COPY):
states on first page of text, “
Roycroft Inn
,
built
30
odd years ago by the Roycrofters”
[Circa 1927]
There are some slight color variances to each.
[Variety 2 is offered in another sale on my site if not sold]
DATE:
There is no date in this pamphlet, but the first page of text states the
Roycroft Inn
”built 25 years ago by the Roycrofters”
. If we assume they refer to the first building of 1897 and that would date the pamphlet at the earliest to approximately
1922
[another Roycroft Inn booklet with the
same cover design
that I am offering in another sale states,
“built 30
odd years ago”
and there are different cars in different
positions in the pictures of the
Roycroft Inn
which correspond with the years of
1922
and
1927.
A second point of note is that
Dard Hunter
worked for
Elbert Hubbard
from
1904
to
1910
and he either designed this cover in
1910 or earlier
and this cover was reused to as late as
1927
[there may be earlier printings with other variances] or
Hunter
designed for
Hubbard
from his
Mountain House Press in Chillicothe, Ohio
in these later years.
CONDITION:
Near fine [see scans].
SECURITY:
ARGUS BOOKS
[or other wording] in
PINK
may have been super-imposed over the images for security or informational reasons and are not on the actual item.
HISTORY:
ROYCROFT INN:
Fourteen original Roycroft buildings are located in the area of South Grove and Main Street in East Aurora. Known as the "Roycroft Campus",
Part of the Roycroft Campus,
the Inn
is a hotel with a restaurant and lobby bar across the street from the primary buildings. It first opened for visitors in 1905
BIOGRAPHICAL:
William Joseph "Dard" Hunter
(November 29, 1883 – February 20, 1966) was an American authority on printing, paper, and papermaking, especially by hand, using sixteenth century tools and techniques. He is known for, among other things, the production of two hundred copies of his book Old Papermaking, for which he prepared all aspects: Hunter wrote the text, designed and cast the type, did the typesetting, handmade the paper, and printed and bound the book. A display at the Smithsonian Institution that appeared with his work read, "In the entire history of printing, these are the first books to have been made in their entirety by the labors of one man." He also wrote Papermaking by Hand in America (1950), a similar but even larger undertaking.
Active in the Arts and Crafts movement, Hunter created and championed many other types of handmade arts and crafts, publishing his own guides, such as Things You Can Make. He experimented with pottery, jewelry, stained glass windows, and furniture. He also founded a correspondence school, the Dard Hunter School of Handicrafts.
Elbert Green Hubbard
(June 19, 1856 – May 7, 1915) was an American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher. Raised in Hudson, Illinois, he had early success as a traveling salesman for the Larkin Soap Company. Hubbard is known best as the founder of the Roycroft artisan community in East Aurora, New York, an influential exponent of the Arts and Crafts movement.
Among Hubbard's many publications were the fourteen-volume work Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great and the short publication A Message to Garcia. He and his second wife, Alice Moore Hubbard, died aboard the RMS Lusitania when it was sunk by a German submarine off the coast of Ireland on May 7, 1915.
SHIPPING:
All paper items [broadsides, labels, pamphlets, brochures, photos, etc.] that are 1/4 of an inch thick or less are shipped between two double-walled pieces of cardboard [equal to 4 sheets of cardboard and are virtually impossible to bend] by USPS Media mail [unless other arrangements have been made with seller].
MN – B2 – S4
(code to locate the item)
]