People/Entities:
Elbert Green Hubbard (1856-1915) - an American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher. He founded the Roycroft movement, modelled on the Arts and Crafts Movement in England with which it was contemporary.
Alice Moore Hubbard (1861-1915) - American feminist, writer, and, with her husband, Elbert Hubbard, was a leading figure in the Roycroft movement.
Elbert “Bert” Hubbard II (1882-1970) - American, son of Elbert Green Hubbard, continued the work of the Roycroft movement after his father’s death in 1915.
William Morris- British author, printer, designer, ran Kelmscott Press, promoted Libertarian Socialism; sought a non-hierarchical society and encouraged beauty for all in everyday life.
Thomas W. Lawson (1857-1925) - American, was a Boston millionaire, stock-broker, and author of several books. His estate, Dreamwold, was located in Scituate, MA
Kelmscott Press - William Morris founded the Kelmscott Press in 1891. His aesthetic was a major inspiration for the Arts and Crafts movement. From 1891-1898, the Kelmscott Press published over 50 works in 66 volumes.
Riviere - The Riviere Bindery was one of the most notable and prolific shops in London's West End from about 1840 through 1939.
Zahn - Otto Zahn (1856-1928) was one of the finest bookbinders in America. He was born in Berka, Germany. Zahn received training in a small bindery there. Later he worked in the best shops of Germany, Italy, Egypt, Switzerland, France, England, and the United States where he ran the Zahn Bindery.
Zaehnsdorf - Joseph Zaehnsdorf (1816 – 1886), was a bookbinder, born in Austria-Hungary. He was apprenticed to a bookbinder of Stuttgart, with whom he remained five years, later worked in binderies In Vienna, Zurich, Baden-Baden, Paris, and London. In London he established his own bindery.
Doves Bindery (England) opened in 1893 under the leadership of Thomas J. Cobden-Sanderson (1840–1922). It aspired to do for bookbinding what the Kelmscott Press did for printing: establish binding as a fine art by using the highest quality materials and the best manual binding techniques.
Roycroft, Samuel and Thomas - 17th century London printers and inspiration for the Roycrofters name.
William Joseph "Dard" Hunter - One of the Roycrofters who was an authority on printing, paper, and papermaking, especially by hand.
W.W. Denslow - American illustrator and caricaturist remembered for his work in collaboration with author L. Frank Baum, especially his illustrations of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
Louis Kinder - Head Bookbinder for the Roycroft bindery, trained as a bookbinder in Germany, author of a “how-to” book on bookbinding titled Formulas for Bookbinders
T.J. Cobden-Sanderson - British lawyer turned bookbinder, ran Doves Bindery, friend of William Morris and embraced Morris’s socialist views, known as Libertarian Socialism; seeking a non-hierarchical society and encouraging beauty for all in everyday life.
Johannes Gutenberg - Inventor of the movable-type printing press.
Bookish Things:
Endpapers - a blank or decorated leaf of paper at the beginning or end of a book, especially one fixed to the inside of the cover.
Colophon - a statement at the end of a book, typically with a printer's emblem, giving information about its authorship and printing.
Printer’s mark, device, emblem or insignia - a symbol used as a trademark by early printers starting in the 15th century.
Tailpieces - a small decorative design at the foot of a page or the end of a chapter or book
Preachment - a tedious or unwelcome sermon
Leather modeling - a process by which areas of leather were cut away adding depth to the surface of the book cover, while other areas were padded to add fullness or height to the surface, an appearance similar to bas-relief sculpture.
Text block - the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book. Collectively, the bound pages of a book as distinct from its covers and end papers.
Initials - a letter at the beginning of a word, a chapter, or a paragraph that is larger than the rest of the text.
Hand illuminated - decorated or illustrated by hand.
Incunables - Books printed in Europe before 1501.
Limitation Statement - Notification in a limited edition of the number of copies printed, often recording by hand the number of the specific copy.
Hand-colored initials - Initials that have been colored or decorated by hand.
Parchment - the skin of an animal, usually sheep or goat, prepared for writing on.
Vellum - the skin of a young animal, usually lamb or calf, prepared for writing on or use as a book cover.
Illumination - An illuminated manuscript is a manuscript in which the text is supplemented with such decoration as initials, borders (marginalia) and miniature illustrations. In the strictest definition, the term refers only to manuscripts decorated with gold or silver; but in both common usage and modern scholarship, the term refers to any decorated or illustrated manuscript from Western traditions.
Watermark - a marking in paper resulting from differences in thickness usually produced by pressure of a projecting design in the mold or on a processing roll and visible when the paper is held up to the light.
Board - is a general term used for pasteboard, millboard, strawboard, etc., all of which are used to form the foundation for book covers. They are made of various pulped or laminated fibrous materials pressed into large, flat sheets, which are then cut to size and covered with cloth, leather, paper, or other materials, to form the book covers. Also called cover boards, or book boards.
Marbled paper - Decorated paper made by a method of aqueous surface design, which can produce patterns similar to smooth marble or other kinds of stone. The patterns are the result of color floated on either water or a solution known as size, and then transferred to an absorbent surface, such as paper.
Limp cover - A book which does not have stiff boards but instead has flexible cloth, leather, vellum, or paper sides.
Other:
Art Nouveau - an international design style that was inspired by natural forms and structures, particularly the curved lines of plants and flowers
Arts and Crafts movement - 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.
