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Updike and Hubbard: Excursus
Berkeley Updike was an esteemed establishment figure from the start. In contrast, Elbert Hubbard has been a bozo. Updike and Hubbard were the same age. Their famous printing enterprises—Updike’s Merry… more →
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Easter (Design) Hunt
wrote 1 year ago: Easter weekend, 2012. The hunt begins. In search of something unexpected but nearby, we took a ro … more →
Elbert Hubbard's recipe for perpetual ignorance
wrote 1 year ago: Be satisfied with your opinions, and content with your knowledge. Elbert Hubbard Elbert Hubbard was … more →
Updike and Hubbard: Excursus
wrote 1 year ago: Berkeley Updike was an esteemed establishment figure from the start. In contrast, Elbert Hubbard has … more →
Irony
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wrote 2 years ago: Elbert Hubbard’s Roycrofters made and sold books in a manner that came to be called small press publ … more →
The Printed Book
wrote 2 years ago: Elbert Hubbard’s Roycroft infiltrated a proliferating world of private presses, little magazines, bo … more →
Retail Associates
wrote 2 years ago: Elbert Hubbard’s Roycroft had mainly to do with twentieth-century modernity and the artistic motifs … more →
Cultural Barbarism
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wrote 2 years ago: Edward Pressey liked Roycroft’s craft but suspected Elbert Hubbard’s ideals. Carl Purington Rollins, … more →
Enter, Carl Purington Rollins
wrote 2 years ago: East Aurora’s Roycroft endured for two generations, until 1938. No such prosperity transformed Edwar … more →
Elbert and Edward
wrote 2 years ago: Edward Pressey’s New Clairvaux and Elbert Hubbard’s Roycrofters seemed similar. Their projects invit … more →
New Clairvaux
wrote 2 years ago: It’s possible, maybe even best, to consider Elbert Hubbard’s Roycroft apart from any Arts and Crafts … more →
Reform and Furniture
wrote 2 years ago: Beginning in 1898, East Aurora’s Roycroft Printing Shop became The Roycrofters, a diverse arts colon … more →
A Message to Garcia
wrote 2 years ago: Elbert Hubbard dashed off the Message to Garcia, his work-ethic opus, as filler; the March 1899 Phil … more →
Anti-Roycroftian
wrote 2 years ago: A couple of years before his Message to Garcia, Elbert Hubbard was celebrating tramps in Arena magaz … more →
A Hop-To-It Hall of Fame
wrote 2 years ago: Elbert Hubbard’s A Message to Garcia was a rendition of self-made individualism, a mythic and imperi … more →
What It Takes
wrote 2 years ago: Elbert Hubbard was first of all a book person. Among book people—a world of small presses and little … more →
Oz
wrote 2 years ago: Like most who championed Arts and Crafts, turn-of-the-century private presses, and artisanry, Elbert … more →
The Few, the Loud, Philistines
wrote 2 years ago: By the mid-1890s, Elbert Hubbard was a published novelist, and his Little Journeys found readers eve … more →
Irony in the Public Service
wrote 2 years ago: courtesy of Providence (R.I.) Athenaeum Originally, The Philistine was a literary magazine, a journa … more →
The Phil
wrote 2 years ago: The Philistine debuted in June 1895. It was HarryTaber’s Philistine—“Edited by H. P. Taber” headed t … more →
