Dreams of Art & Glory Book Craft by the Roycrofters

Further reading

Floral Motif

Hubbard, Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians: Schumann, 12-000030161 IRISH

Collections Used

Fine Print Collection

General Collection

Irish Collection

Other Boston College Library collections featured in this exhibit:

Boston College Law Library

Bibliography on Elbert Hubbard and the Roycrofters

Balch, Davis Arnold. Elbert Hubbard: Genius of Roycroft. New York: F. A. Stokes, Co.: 1940.

Beisner, Robert L. “‘Commune’ in East Aurora.” American Heritage 22 (Feb 1971): 72-77, 106-9.

Berman, Avis. “AD Travels: Inside the Roycrofter’s World: The Arts and Crafts Era Survives in Western New York.” Architectural Digest 52 (March 1995): 62+.

Bohdan, Carol. “Arts and Crafts Copperware.” American Art & Antiques 2/2 (Mar-Apr 1979): 108-115.

“The Roycrofters of East Aurora; An Episode in American Arts and Crafts.” Connoisseur 203/187 (Mar 1980): 209-216.

The Book of Roycrofters: Being a Catalog of Copper, Leather and Books. East Aurora, N.Y.: House of Hubbard, 1977. Reprint of 1919 sales catalog.

Boris, Eileen. Art and Labor: John Ruskin, William Morris, and the Craftsman Ideal in America, 1876-1915. (Ph.D. Dissertation, Brown University, 1981).

Brady, Linda Hubbard. Roycroft Handmade Furniture. Boston: Bulfinch Press, 1981.

Brady, Nancy Hubbard. Roycroft Handmade Furniture: A Facsimile of a 1912 Catalog With Other Related Material Added. East Aurora, N. Y.: House of Hubbard, 1973.

Brady, Nancy Hubbard, ed. The Book of the Roycrofters, Being a Catalog of Copper, Leather and Books. East Aurora, N.Y.: House of Hubbard, 1977. Facsimile of two catalogs, 1909-1916.

Caruthers, J. Wade. “Elbert Hubbard: A Case of Re-Interpretation.” Connecticut Review 1 (Oct 1967): 67-77.

Cathers, David M. Furniture of the American Arts and Crafts Movement - Stickley and Roycroft Mission Oak. New York: New American Library, 1981.

Champney, Freeman. Art and Glory: The Story of Elbert Hubbard. New York: Crown Publishers, 1968.

Clark, Robert Judson. The Arts and Crafts Movement in America, 1876-1916. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1972.

“Design: Light Fixtures of Copper and Oak Are Shining Examples of Arts and Crafts.” Los Angeles Times, February 19, 1994, pp. N-9. http://www.elibrary.com/. February 1996.

Dirlam, Kenneth H. and Ernest E. Simmons. Sinners, This is East Aurora: The Story of Elbert Hubbard and the Roycroft Shops. New York: Vantage Press, 1964.

Edwards, Robert. “The Roycrofters,” In Nineteenth Century Furniture: Innovation, Revival and Reform. (New York: Art and Antiques, 1982): 104-111.

Edwards, Robert. “The Roycrofters; Their Furniture and Crafts.” Art & Antiques 4/6 (Nov-Dec 1981): 80-87.

Ewald, Richard. “Roycroft Furniture: At the Roots of Arts-and-Crafts.” Fine Woodworking 88 (May/June 1991): 90-3.

Farrar, Francis. The Book of the Roycrofters. East Aurora, N. Y.: Roycrofters, 1907.

Forbes, Christopher. “All’s Well that Sells Well (Elbert Hubbard).” Art and Antiques 6 (Oct 1989): 124-8+.

Fra (The). East Aurora, N.Y., 1980-1917. A Roycrofter Magazine.

Gray, Stephan, ed. The Roycrofters: A Catalog of the Roycrofters Featuring Metalwork and Lighting Fixtures. New York: Turn of the Century Editions, 1989.

Hamilton, Charles F. As Bees in Honey Drown: Elbert Hubbard and the Roycrofters. South Brunswick: A. S. Barnes, 1973.

Hamilton, Charles F. Little Journeys to the Homes of Roycrofters. East Aurora, N. Y.: S-G Press, 1963.

Hamilton, Charles F. Roycroft Collectibles. San Diego: A. S. Barnes and Co., 1980.

“Head, Heart and Hand: Elbert Hubbard and the Roycrofters.” Museum News 73 (Sept/Oct 1991): 15.

Hunter, Dard. My Life with Paper. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1958.

Hunter, Dard. “The Lost Art of Making Books.” Miscellany 2 (1915).

Kaplan, Wendy. “The Art that is Life”, The Arts and Crafts Movement in America, 1875-1920. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1987.

Knapp, Rebecca. “Head, Heart, and Hand (Elbert Hubbard and the Roycrofters: Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, New York: Traveling Exhibit).” Art and Antiques 16 (Feb 1995): 69.

Koch, Robert. “Elbert Hubbard’s Roycrofters as Artist-Craftsmen.” Winterthur Portfolio, 3 (1967): 67-82.

Ledes, Allison Eckardt. “Elbert Hubbard’s Roycroft Community.” The Magazine Antiques 146 (Dec 1994): 734+.

MacDonald, Carol. “Reviving the Roycroft Spirit.” Americana 14 (July/Aug 1986): 34-8.

McConnell, Kevin. Roycroft Art Metal. West Chester, Pa.: Schiffer Publ., 1990.

McKenna, Paul. A History and Bibliography of the Roycroft Printing Shop. North Tonawanda, N. Y.: Tona Graphics, 1986.

Petty, J. F. “The Webpage of the Roycrofters.” http://www.mindspring.com/~jfpetty/. February 1996.

Philistine (The). East Aurora, N. Y. 1895-1915. A Roycroft magazine.

“Roycroft Ideals and Cabinet Making.” Wood Craft 4 (Oct 1905): 11, 13-14.

Shay, Felix. Elbert Hubbard of East Aurora. New York: Wise and Co., 1926.

Turgeon, Kitty and Robert C. Rust. “Collecting ‘Fit for A King’: Defining Roycroft.” Antiques and Collecting Hobbies 94 (Oct 1989): 75-7.

Vidler, Virginia. “Hubbard’s Roycroft,” Antiques Journal, 24 (July 1969): 10-12.

Wolfe, Richard J. and Paul McKenna. Louis Herman Kinder and Fine Bookbinding in America: A Chapter in the History of the Roycroft Shop. Newtown, Pa.: Bird and Bull Press, 1985