San Francisco, CA: Book Club of California, 2016. small 4to. paper-covered boards, paper spine label, paper covered slipcase. 138 pages. Limited to 300 signed and numbered copies. Includes the prospectus. Roughly fifteen years after Gutenberg printed the first substantial book in Mainz in 1455, Nicolas Jenson of Venice produced what has been universally recognized among the most beautiful typefaces ever created. Based on the humanistic calligraphy of the Renaissance, an even and infinitely various set..... READ MORE about THE NOBLEST ROMAN: A HISTORY OF THE CENTAUR TYPES OF BRUCE ROGERS

Price: $150.00  other currencies  Order nr. 129681

New York: Taplinger Publishing Company, (1987). small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 168 pages. First U.S. edition. Describes the careers of the great type designers of this century - Goudy, Rogers, Koch, Dwiggins, Gill, Morison, etc. Well illustrated. Fine condition. READ MORE about TWENTIETH CENTURY TYPE DESIGNERS

Price: $20.00  other currencies  Order nr. 62292

New York: The Typophiles, 2003. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, cord-tied. 31+(1) pages. Typophiles Monograph New Series #20. Known throughout the world of typography, Abe Lerner was a highly respected and talented typographer/book designer with links to the likes of the great Bruce Rogers. With a meticulous eye for detail and clean design, he was constantly working on new projects. With a career that landed him as the Director of Design and Production at Macmillan, President..... READ MORE about ABE LERNER 1908-2002

Price: $30.00  other currencies  Order nr. 75326

New York: The Typophiles, 1998. 8vo. quarter blue cloth with patterned paper-covered boards. 101, (3) pages. Typophile Chap Book - New Series Number Two. Limited to 500 copies designed by Dan Carr and printed in the original metal Monotype Dante on vintage Mohawk Letterpress Text by J. Ferrari & D. Carr at Golgonooza Letter Foundry & Press. Well-illustrated with reproductions of John DePol's wood-engravings. READ MORE about JOHN DE POL AND THE TYPOPHILES, A MEMOIR AND RECORD OF FRIENDSHIPS

Price: $40.00  other currencies  Order nr. 69520

No. IV.
London: Office of the Fleuron, 1925. small 4to. cloth. (viii), 163, (19) pages. No. IV. With an article on script types by Stanley Morison, Holbrook Jackson on Robert Bridges, George Moore and Bernard Shaw and their printing, Sidgwick on Percy Smith, Newdigate on Emery Walker, Hanna Kiel on modern German printing and Frederic Warde on Bruce Rogers. Spine slightly faded. READ MORE about FLEURON, A JOURNAL OF TYPOGRAPHY

Price: $125.00  other currencies  Order nr. 14441

New York: n.p., 1966. 4to. stiff paper folder with 15 articles and broadsides about Goudy produced especially for this dinner by various pressmen loosely inserted. Includes contributions by Earl Emmons, Roland Baughman, Earnest Calkins, Frances Perkins and others. Some of the tributes have been hand-set. A fine collection of material about one of America's finest type designers. Covers faded. READ MORE about KEEPSAKE TRIBUTE TO FREDERIC W. GOUDY TO COMMEMORATE THE GOUDY CENTENN IAL DINNER, MARCH 8, 1966

Price: $45.00  other currencies  Order nr. 22058

Boston, MA: David R. Godine, 2016. small 4to. paper-covered boards, dust jacket. 120, (2) pages. Roughly fifteen years after Gutenberg printed the first substantial book in Mainz in 1455, Nicolas Jenson of Venice produced what has been universally recognized among the most beautiful typefaces ever created. Based on the humanistic calligraphy of the Renaissance, an even and infinitely various set of lowercase letters that had evolved from the Carolingian minuscules of the ninth century, Jenson's..... READ MORE about THE NOBLEST ROMAN: A HISTORY OF THE CENTAUR TYPES OF BRUCE ROGERS

Price: $45.00  other currencies  Order nr. 129302

N.P. Lake Forest University, (1954). 8vo. self paper wrappers. (iv), 31+(1) pages. Exhibition held in conjunction with the Second Assembly of the World Council of Churches in 1954 at Lake Forest College in Illinois. 36 Christian books and manuscripts, one dating back to the 7th century. Designed by Bruce Rogers. READ MORE about ONE THOUSAND YEARS OF CHRISTIAN BOOKS

Price: $30.00  other currencies  Order nr. 115913

New York, NY: The Typophiles, 2003. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, cord-tied. 31+(1) pages. Typophiles Monograph New Series #20. Known throughout the world of typography, Abe Lerner was a highly respected and talented typographer/book designer with links to the likes of the great Bruce Rogers. With a meticulous eye for detail and clean design, he was constantly working on new projects. With a career that landed him as the Director of Design and Production at Macmillan..... READ MORE about ABE LERNER 1908-2002

Price: $30.00  other currencies  Order nr. 94392

N.P. The Limited Editions Club, n.d. (but 1988). folio. half morocco, with cloth-covered boards, slipcase. xiv, 104, (2) pages. Letterpress printed in an edition limited to 750 numbered copies signed by the illustrator Roberto Juarez and author of the introduction John Hersey. Richly illustrated with original etchings printed on hand-made Japanese tissue. Hand sewn and bound by Carol Joyce. Printed in Monotype Jansen designed by Bruce Rogers. Bound at the Garthegaat Bindery. A beautiful copy..... READ MORE about THE KINGDOM OF THIS WORLD

Price: $200.00  other currencies  Order nr. 45732

New York: Columbia University, 1957. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, paper cover label. 46 pages. With text by Bruce Rogers and Helen Macy at beginning. Reproduces Norman Rockwell portrait of Macy as frontispiece. READ MORE about ADDRESS BY SIR FRANCIS MEYNELL AT THE DEDICATION OF THE GEORGE MACY MEMORIAL COLLECTION OF BOOKS...

Price: $25.00  other currencies  Order nr. 9904

39 volumes
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1939-1941. 4to. cloth-backed decorated boards, top edges gilt with COMMENTARIES in publisher's binding. variously paginated. 39 volumes. Limited to 1950 copies signed by Bruce Rogers. Overall design of this classic in book design and illustration was in the hands of Bruce Rogers. Each of the 37 volumes of Plays is illustrated by a different illustrator. The impressive list includes Eric Gill, Arthur Rackham, Gordon Ross, Edy Legrand, John Austen..... READ MORE about COMEDIES, HISTORIES & TRAGEDIES OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Price: $850.00  other currencies  Order nr. 62303