As Bees In Honey Drown : The Loves, Lives, & Letters of the Roycroft's Alice and Elbert Hubbard

Tavares, FL: SPS Publications. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1997. Softcover. Faintest scuffing to covers from shelving. ; Sourced from personal correspondence, records, and interviews with those involved with Roycroft, this is a biography of both Elbert and Alice Hubbard. Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) founded The Roycroft Shops, based on his version of the European Arts and Crafts movement. Roycroft ultimately became an artisan community based on hand crafts and publishing, with Elbert writing and lecturing to capitalize the business. Hubbard's second wife Alice Hubbard (1861-1915) was profoundly influential in Elbert's pursuits, wrote books that Roycroft published, and directed and managed much of the business of Roycroft. This book covers both positives and negatives in the Hubbard's mutually-supportive relationship, as they lived and worked together before their deaths in the 1915 sinking of the S. S. Lusitania. Foreword by Elbert "Bert" Hubbard II, son of Elbert and his first wife Bertha. The Epilogue covers the loss of Alice and Elbert from the 1915 German sinking of the British ocean liner S. S. Lusitania which was carrying munitions from the US to Great Britain. Tributes and memorial services are described, as well as the general public shock over both the loss and what the press and public saw as German aggression. The Appendix is The Roycroft Institution After Hubbard's Death - The Shadow of One Man. This covers the insurmountable task of perpetuating all things Roycroft after the Hubbards deaths. Elbert Hubbard II, "Bert," kept the works operating, but post-war America lost its taste for hand craft as modernization and mass production captured the public's dollars. The stock market crash of 1929 knocked a hole in the Roycroft boat, and a 1938 bankruptcy put an end to it. Softcover with illustrated wraps, the front being a portrait photo of the Hubbards. Illustrated with monochrome photographs of the Hubbards, various doings on the Roycroft campus, Roycroft publications and ephemera, etc. Well indexed. Clean, and conservatively Near Fine condition.; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 263 pages .