Title: The Artsman: The Art That Is Life, February 1904.
Description: Moylan, PA: Rose Valley Press, 1904. 1904. - Small quarto [approximately 8 inches high by 6 inches wide], softcover bound in tan wrappers printed in black with a vignette in black on the front cover & the Rose Valley Press logo on the rear wrap. There are chips to the head and tail of the spine and top corners of the front cover. [40] unopened deckle-edged pages, numbered 153 through 192. Illustrated with a 2-page facsimile. There is dampstaining to the top inner corner of the pages and covers. A good unopened copy.
Among the contents of this issue are a facsimile of an 1889 letter from William Morris to Horace Traubel; "Sacrament of common things" by Peter Burrowes; and "The civilization that the machine has made" by Horace Traubel. Also, "A glimpse of Rose Valley from the outside" by Carleton Noyes;
The Rose Valley Association was formed in July 1901, under the leadership of Wlll Price, to start an arts and crafts project. The association did not produce arts and crafts itself but rented out working space to craftsmen, provided them with housing and helped sell what they produced. Price's vision may have been modeled on the utopian socialist society described in "News from Nowhere" by William Morris.
Rare. Good .
Keywords: AMERICANA; ARTS AND CRAFTS MOVEMENT; THE ROSE VALLEY ASSOCIATION; THE ROSE VALLEY PRESS; CRAFTSMEN; PERIODICAL; JOURNAL; THE ARTSMAN FEBRUARY 1904; HORACE TRAUBEL, EDITOR; WILLIAM L. PRICE, EDITOR; HAWLEY MCLANAHAN, EDITOR; PETER BURROWES; CARLETON NOYES;
- Book number: 98282
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