, Harry N. Abrams, 1997 Hardcover, 248 pages, English, 365 x 230 x 30 mm, In Fine Condition!.,Oblong, Illustrated dustjacket, illustrations in colour / b/w. ISBN 9780810963412.
This book reproduces more than 150 works dating from the 1890s to the 1930s. They include examples of furniture, ceramics, metalwork, jewellery, textiles, photography, book arts and typography, and wood-block prints. Boston's Society of Arts and Crafts was the first such organization in the USA. Published to mark the centenary of its founding, and examining Boston's role in the growth of the nation's Arts and Crafts movement. Essays by specialists explore each medium, and there is also discussion of Boston's many reform societies, settlement houses, trade schools, craft workshops and publishers, which helped to propel the Arts and Crafts movement to national significance.